Trinity & Sabine Railway Co. v. Schofield

Acker, Presiding Judge.

Appellee brought this suit June 1, 1885, to recover of appellant damages for destruction of crops and injury to land occasioned by overflows in the years 1884 and 1885. It was alleged that the overflows were caused by the negligent and improper construction of a ditch cut by appellant to change the channel of a stream through appellee’s farm. On the 22d of May, 1886, appellee filed an amended petition setting up additional causes of the overflows in other acts of alleged negligence upon the part of appellant in constructing its road bed and digging ditches to drain…