Red River, Texas & Southern Railway Co. v. Hughes

STEPHENS, Associate Justice.

In constructing its railway through the western part of Fort Worth, appellant touched the northeast corner of a tract of land belonging to appellee, containing about six acres, and adjoining the corporate limits of said city. The road was so constructed as to take a fraction of an acre of this land and to render the rest inaccessible on account of embankments and excavations made on and across Cre’sswell Street and Seventh Avenue, abutting on the land. For thus obstructing these streets the jury assessed appellee’s damages at $1450, and for the land taken allowed…