Missouri, K. & T. Ry. Co. of Texas v. Forrest

The appellee, Forrest, brought this suit against the appellant to recover, under what is known as the Johnson grass statute (Acts 27th Legislature, c. 117), the penalty prescribed for a violation of that statute, and damages to what he alleges to be four farms owned by him contiguous to the appellant’s railroad right of way, by reason of Johnson grass going to seed on such right of way during the years 1908, 1909, and 1910. The petition alleges, in substance: That plaintiff, T. C. Forrest, is now, and has been for a number of years, the owner in fee simple of four certain farms. That the same…