City of Houston v. Houston East & West Texas Railway Co.

GILL, Associate Justice.

This .suit was instituted by Sallie M. Pruett against the city of Houston, a municipal corporation, and the Houston Bast and West Texas Railway Company, to recover damages for injuries resulting from the overflow of plaintiff’s premises caused by the alleged negligence of the city in so constructing its streets and drains as to divert the natural flow of the surface water, throwing same upon plaintiff’s land, and the alleged negligence of the railroad company in constructing an insufficient culvert through its embankment, whereby said surface water was caused to…