Louisiana Farms Co. v. Yazoo M.V.R. Co.

O’NIELL, Chief Justice.

This is a suit for damages for violation of a verbal contract.

The plaintiff is a partnership, composed of D. J. Gay, L. N. Dantzler, and Launnie Ginn, and is engaged in farming on a tract of land belonging to Gay. The defendant’s railroad, extending north and south, traverses the farm, which slopes eastward and drains into the railroad ditch paralleling the roadbed, and thence through culverts under the roadbed, and into Bayou Conway, behind the farm, and far away from the railroad. The railroad company found' it necessary to widen and strengthen the roadbed by digging…