North American Dredging Co. v. Pugh

This appeal is from a judgment of the court below for $1,950 in favor of appellee and against appellant, entered upon the findings of a jury upon special issues, as damages for certain alleged injuries to and depreciation in the values of his five-acre homestead and his one-acre burial ground, situated on opposite sides of Buffalo bayou near the Turning basin (Houston ship channel), and adjacent to what was known as section 3 of this channel under the contracts for dredging it.

It was alleged that, in dredging the ship channel in that vicinity, appellant built levees along its sides, and then…