Yazoo & M. V. R. v. Scott
Mississippi Supreme Court
Appeal from the circuit court of Bolivar county. Hon. T. R. Scott, Judge. Suit against the Yazoo & Mississippi Valley Railroad Company. F'rom a judgment for plaintiff, defendant appeals. The facts are fully stated in the opinion of the court. We submit; First: That this land, according to the testimony of Mr. Burf ord, for fifteen years was not drained at all, so that no crops could be made on it except in one or two very dry years.
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Appeal from the circuit court of Bolivar county. Hon. T. R. Scott, Judge. Suit against the Yazoo & Mississippi Valley Railroad Company. F'rom a judgment for plaintiff, defendant appeals. The facts are fully stated in the opinion of the court. We submit; First: That this land, according to the testimony of Mr. Burf ord, for fifteen years was not drained at all, so that no crops could be made on it except in one or two very dry years. Second: That if the drainage is not so good now as it was fifteen years before the suit was brought (and there seems to be very little difference according to the…
1Opinion of the CourtStevens, J.
Appellee, as plaintiff in the court below, instituted this action for damages against appellant, averring that by the improper construction and maintenance of appellant’s roadbed the-crops attempted to be raised by appellee on certain lands in Bolivar county were flooded and destroyed in the years 1910 and 1911. Appellee was lessee for the years 1910, 1911, and 1912. of a certain plantation through which the roadbed of appellant’s railroad runs. To the east of the roadbed on the lands leased by appellee and to the north of these lands the natural slope of the land is to the southwest. The…
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- Sinai v. Louisville, New Orleans & Texas Railway Co.Mississippi Supreme Court · 1893
- Thompson v. Mobile, Jackson & Kansas City RailroadMississippi Supreme Court · 1913
- Yazoo & M. V. R. v. SultanMississippi Supreme Court · 1913
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