Sabine & East Texas Railway Co. v. Brousard

HENRY, Associate Justice.

This suit was brought by appellee to recover of appellant damages.

Plaintiff complains that defendant so negligently constructed its railroad bed all the way from Taylor’s Bayou to the town of Sabine Pass, that when in January, 1885, there came heavy rains, such as are usual to that region, the water overflowed the south bank of the bayou and was obstructed in its natural flow toward Sabine Lake by said railroad bed, and dammed up and caused to accumulate and stand at a great depth upon plaintiff’s land for several months, destroying the grass and causing the death of…