New York, Philadelphia & Norfolk Railroad v. Jones

This suit was brought by the appellee, who is the owner of a farm in Worcester County, Maryland, to recover damages for injuries alleged to be caused to the appellee’s farm by large quantities of water cast upon it as a result of the construction of appellant’s railroad. The declaration contains two counts ; the first alleging that the defendant broke and entered the plaintiff’s lands and flooded the same with water; and the second alleging that by reason of the erection of an embankment upon which the track of the railroad was laid, and the cutting of ditches on the sides of this embankment,…