Canon City & Cripple Creek Railroad v. Oxtoby
Supreme Court of Colorado
Appeal from Fremont District Court—Hon. Louis W. Cunningham, Judge.
1Opinion of the Court
Mr. Justice -Campbell
delivered the opinion of the court:
Action to recover damages caused by seepage water which escaped from an artificial excavation or pond of the defendants, and reached and injured plaintiff’s lands.
The Canon City and Cripple Creek Railroad Company' built a line of railway extending -from Canon City to Oro Junction, in Fremont County, and, in order to make the necessary and proper embankments in maintaining the grade of its road-bed, *215made an excavation called a borrow pit,, wholly within its right-of-way. It is about 500 feet long by 100 feet wide, with a surface area of a…
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