Illinois Central Railroad Co. v. George

The appellee French George owns a tract of land of approximately 85 acres in Adams County, Mississippi, which he used as a cattle farm and for growing hay. He purchased the land on April 22, 1949, from George R. Hightower and wife. From and after his purchase he was having an “erosion problem” and in July of that year he constructed a flume to correct this situation, that is to say, a ditch or gorge through which a stream of water was to flow to prevent his land from eroding* into Hoggatt’s creek.

Because the railroad between Fayette, Mississippi, and Natchez, Mississippi, does not run exactly…