St. Louis & San Francisco Railway Co. v. Craigo

LIGHTFOOT, Chief Justice.

The suit was brought by appellee to recover damages in the sum of $2540 for injury to his farm, crops, and fences during the spring of 1891 and the spring of 1892, on account of being overflowed, inundated, and washed away by the waters from Red River, which injury and damages were alleged and claimed by appellee to have been directly caused by appellant by the negligent construction of its bridge across Red River, a short distance above appellee’s farm, and the rip-rapping of the north bank of Red River, and the throwing up of a long embankment from the north end of…