Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railway Co. v. Malone
Court of Appeals of Texas
Error from the District Court of Hays County. Tried below before Hon. L. W. Moore.
1Opinion of the Court
RICE, Associate Justice.
Defendant in error was the owner of a valuable irrigated farm containing 246 acres, lying in the San Marcos Valley, adjacent to the city of San Marcos, through which the railway of plaintiff in error ran, and he claims that the railway was so negligently constructed that it failed to permit the escape of surface water, by reason of which the same was impounded and held by the railway embankment, occasioning both damage to his crops and permanent injury to his land from back water standing thereon; and that plaintiff in error negligently permitted Johnson grass to…
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- Fort Worth & New Orleans Railway Co. v. WallaceTexas Supreme Court · 1889
- Dwight v. . E., C. N.R.R. Co.New York Court of Appeals · 1892
- Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railway Co. v. LycanSupreme Court of Kansas · 1897
- Owens v. Missouri Pacific Railway Co.Texas Supreme Court · 1887
- Miller v. County of KernCalifornia Supreme Court · 1902
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