St. L., I. M. & S. Railway Co. v. Morris

Morris, the owner of a tract of land in Jackson county, for the consideration of a dollar gave a right of way across the same to the defendant railway company.

On the thirteenth of July, 1876, he brought this action at law against the company; alleging, in substance, that it had wrongfully erected an embankment upon the line of its road, and built a trestle, near the lands, and was continuing the same, whereby it caused the waters of Lye branch and White river to overflow them, and rise higher and remain longer upon them than before,’with other injuries; that, his lands were rendered unsalable…