Gross v. City of Lampasas

Henry, Associate Justice.

We take the statement of the pleadings of the parties from their briefs.

*198The appellant Gross, who was plaintiff in the court below, sought to recover of the appellee, the city of Lampasas, as defendant, damages for alleged injuries to his homestead premises, caused, first, by the overflow of' surface water into the plaintiff’s lot, caused by the grading and draining done by the city, whereby water was conducted through ditches to the boundary of plaintiff’s premises and precipitated thereon in larger quantities and with more destructive force than before, and no…