Flaxman & McKenzie v. Rice

Robertson, Associate Justice.

The appellants alleged, as cause of action in the district court, that they were the owners of one hundred and sixty acres of land in Tyler county, 1‘ near by, and convenient to, Hickory creek ; ” that the land was chiefly valuable for its timber, and that the timber could only be utilized when transported to the saw mills at Beaumont; that the means and route of transportation of timber from the vicinity of appellants’ land to the mills was by floating down Hickory creek, into Village creek, down that into the Veches river, and thence down to the mills, and that…