Imperial Irrigation Co. v. Jayne
Texas Supreme Court
Error to the Court of Civil Appeals, Fourth District, in an appeal from Pecos County. Jayne sued the Irrigation Company for the recovery of land, and appealed from a judgment for defendant. This being reversed and judgment rendered fpr plaintiff, the Irrigation Company obtained writ of error.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Dibrell
This suit was brought by Joe Jayne, as plaintiff, against the Imperial Irrigation-Company, A. D. Jamison and Bose Allison, as defendants, to recover section No. 2 of block No. 9, Houston & G. N. Ry. survey, in Pecos County, Texas, consisting of 591.15 acres, and for damages in the sum of $10,000, alleged to have resulted from the construction of a dam or embankment on the land sued for. There was a prayer for an injunction to restrain defendants from maintaining upon plaintiff’s land the dams, embankments, locks, gates, canals and flumes placed thereon by defendants, and to prevent' them from…
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