Coryell County v. Fegette

Not being able to agree with my Associates in the disposition of this case, I hereby file the following dissenting opinion:

The record shows that appellees filed a claim in the commissioners’ court of Coryell county, Tex., for damages to garden, crops, and land, alleged to be the result of an overflow caused by the change and maintenance of a culvert upon the appellant’s road adjacent to appellees’ property; that said claim was considered by the commissioners’ court and rejected; and that no appeal was taken from this action of the court. Thereafter appellees filed suit in the county court,…