Anderson v. Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad

Thomas C. Anderson, plaintiff and appellee, began this action in Franklin county to recover for damages to growing crops occasioned by the negligent diversion of surface water to ánd upon his land by defendant in 1914 and 1915. Plaintiff recovered judgment, and defendant appealed.

Mr. Anderson owns 120 acres of farm land abutting on the north line of defendant’s right of way. The railroad runs almost due east and west at that point for a distance of more than three-quarters of a mile. The farm is a quarter of a mile in • width. About a quarter of a mile north of plaintiff’s farm there is a…