Baltimore & Sparrows Point Railroad v. Hackett

The appellee was possessed of a tract of land in Baltimore County upon which he was engaged in growing vegetables and other farm products for market. Through this land passes the railroad of the appellee. It is alleged in the narr. that the appellee did not ‘ ‘ properly provide and maintain gutters and drains along and under its railroad for the natural drainage of the land adjacent” thereto; and in consequence of which the premises of the appellee were flooded! and crops of vegetables and farm products were destroyed-

The appellee is the lessee of the premises on which the damages alleged…