De Mary v. Jefferson County

COMBS, Justice.

Appellant, Joe De Mary, sought damages from Jefferson county for injury allegedly .caused to his muskrat trapping business by reason of overflow of lands upon which he held a trapping lease during the repair of the spillway on the bank of the intercoastal canal in Jefferson county. The facts show that DeMary’s lessor, S. W. Pipkin, owner of the lands involved, donated a right-of-way for the intercoastal canal. At the time the canal was built the county constructed a spillway across Salt Bayou, a natural drainage outlet on the Pipkin lands, the spillway having been constructed…