City of Ft. Worth v. Young
Court of Appeals of Texas
Appeal from District Court, Tarrant County; Marvin H. Brown, Judge. Suit by Mrs. Ella Young and others against the City of Ft. Worth. Judgment for plaintiff, new trial denied, and defendant appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtConner, C. J.
This suit was brought by Mrs. Young and others in the Sixty-Seventh district court of Tarrant county, Tex., on the 28th day of July, 1913, against the city of Ft. Worth, wherein complaint is made of damages resulting on account of the construction and completion of a large dam on the west fork of the Trinity river, which resulted in the backing up of water from said dam and overflowing plaintiff’s lands. The case was tried on an amended petition filed in this cause on the 11th day of January, 1915. In said petition it was alleged that plaintiff owned about 1,200 acres of land, a large portion…
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