Owens v. Navarro County Levee Improvement Dist. No. 8

Appellant brought this suit for damages which he claimed were occasioned by appellees’ constructing a levee on Chambers and Richland creeks in Navarro county. The cause was tried to a jury, and resulted in a verdict for appellant for $735. From this appellant appealed.

Appellant owned about 1,100 acres of land in one tract, a part of which lies contiguous to the levee constructed by appellees, and appellant claimed that, by reason of the change made in Richland and Chambers creeks by the building of the levee, it caused water to flow over his land; that by reason thereof 350 acres of his land…