Louisville N.R. Co. v. Capdepon

In 1923 appellee purchased a house and lot in the municipality of Bay St. Louis, Mississippi, on which he and his family thereafter resided.

Many years prior thereto appellant acquired a right of way adjacent to that lot, on which right of way it constructed a railroad, and along the side thereof next to the property of appellee it dug a ditch, which ran parallel with its right of way and railroad tracks.

Appellee sued appellant for damages to his lot and improvements thereon, and also for inconvenience, danger to health of himself and family, etc., resulting, as appellee claimed, from the…