Baugh v. Gulf, Colorado & Santa Fe Railway Co.

KEY, Associate Justice.

H. F. Baugh brought this suit against the railway company to recover damages alleged to have been caused by the failure to properly construct the defendant’s roadbed. It was alleged in the plaintiff’s petition that the defendant made an embankment on its right of way and failed to construct such necessary culverts and sluices through and under the same as the natural lay of the land required for the necessary drainage thereof, whereby the natural flow of surface water was obstructed and diverted to- and upon the plaintiff’s land, causing certain specified injuries…