Texas and New Orleans Railroad Co. v. Barnhouse

W. O. MURRAY, Chief Justice.

This is a suit by J. Earl Barnhouse and nineteen other residents of Craig Park Addition to the City of Alice, in Jim Wells County, Texas, against the Texas and New Orleans Railroad Company, for damages allegedly sustained by reason of the failure of appellant to maintain its roadbed with the necessary culverts and sluices, as required by the natural lay of the land, for the drainage of surface water therefrom.

The trial was to a jury and, based upon the verdict of the jury, judgment was rendered in plaintiffs’ favor in the total sum of $10,683.23, from which…