International & Great Northern Railroad v. Reagan

This suit was instituted by Reagan, the defendant in error, against the International-Great Northern Railroad Company, in the district court of Robertson county, for damages for the alleged destruction of a part of his cotton crop during the year 1929.- It was alleged that Mineral creek runs through the field of defendant in error and under the plaintiff in error’s railroad dump, and that the plaintiff in error failed to construct and maintain the necessary culverts, etc., as the natural lay of the land required for its necessary drainage, and that as a result thereof the waters from the…