Atlantic Coast Line Railroad v. Saffold

The writ of error herein was taken to a judgment awarding $2,000.00 damages' for alleged injury to land caused by overflow of surface water resulting from obstruction of natural passage of heavy rain water by a railroad embankment with insufficient culverts to let the water pass under and through the railroad embankment.

The first count of the declaration alleges: “that through” the plaintiff’s described land “* * * is a natural watercourse or natural drain, by means of which during heavy rains and particularly during the rainy season in Florida, when precipitation is of great volume and…