Wichita Falls & Oklahoma Ry. Co. v. Pepper

SPEER, Justice.

A. C. Pepper sued the Wichita Falls & Oklahoma Railway Company and the Wichita Valley Railway Company in the district court of Clay county, Tex., 'for damages to his growing crops during the year 1935, because of flood waters covering his lands, alleged to he on account of the negligence of defendants.

Plaintiff was a tenant on lands adjacent to Red river with defendants’ railway tracks extending along his east or southeast line. It is alleged that the natural fall of plaintiff’s lands is toward the railway tracks; that defendants had failed to provide the necessary drainage and…