Waco Bridge Company v. City of Waco

HENRY, Associate Justice.

This suit was brought by the appellant to restrain the city of Waco in the following respects: It charged that plaintiff acquired by purchase from W. B. and S. B. Trice, by deed dated the 19tli day of May, 1876, two acres of land lying above its bridge and on the east bank of the Brazos River, on which it proposed to construct a barricade to prevent the supports upon which its bridge rested from being-washed and undermined by the waters of the river, but that it was forbidden and prevented from so doing by the city.

“Appellant further averred, that appellee, during the…