Madisonville, H. & E. R. R. v. Cates

Opinion of the Court by

Judge Settle

Affirming.

Appellee recovered of appellant in the court below a verdict and judgment for &500 damages, resulting from the flooding of his land, and injury to. certain crops produced and growing thereon, caused, *259as alleged, by the •wrongful acts of appellant’s servants in negligently diverting the waters of a stream called “Greasy Creek,” and those of a tributary branch, from the natural beds or channels in which they were accustomed to stand and run, and causing them, in unusual volume and quantity, to overflow and stand upon appellee’s land and crops.…