San Antonio & Aransas Pass Railway Co. v. Gurley

FISHER, Chief Justice.

This is a suit by Gurley against the railway company for the recovery of damages alleged to have occurred as a result of overflows on the land of appellee caused by the improper construction of appellant’s railway and the opening of its borrow pits and ditches, and also for the value of certain improvements in the nature of bridges, etc., erected by Gurley, which was necessary to be erected after appellant had caused the land to be overflowed.

The plaintiff’s petition substantially alleges that prior to the construction of the railway the waters of Bull Hide Creek flowed…