Gulf, Colorado & Santa Fe Railway Co. v. Hepner
Texas Supreme Court
This is an appeal from a judgment for $1000 damages for overflowing six acres of land about one mile west of Dallas, in 1885. The opinion states the case.
1Opinion of the Court
GARRETT, Presiding Judge,
Section B.—Robert Hepner, as plaintiff, brought this suit in the District Court of Dallas County, May 4, 1886, against the Gulf, Colorado & Santa Fe Railway Company, as defendants, to recover damages for the overflow of a tract of six acres of land belonging to the plaintiff, situated in the Trinity River bottom about one mile west of the city of Dallas. He alleged that, the overflow was caused by an embankment made by the defendant across the bottom land of the river below plaintiff’s tract, in the construction of its railway across the river, which embankment had…
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