Ft. Worth & R. G. Ry. Co. v. Tuggle

This appeal is prosecuted by the Ft. Worth & Rio Grande Railway Company and G. H. Schleyer and Avery Turner, its receivers, from a joint.judgment rendered against them in favor of plaintiff, T. H. Tuggle, upon pleadings alleging, substantially, that through defective construction and maintenance of the roadbed of the defendant railway company across plaintiff’s land the natural flow of water from rainfall had been so obstructed and diverted as to cause the overflow of plaintiff’s land adjacent to the roadbed and the destruction of crops growing thereon. The trial was by the court without the…