Atchison, T. & S. F. Ry. Co. v. Hadley

Plaintiff filed his action against the defendant company September 25, 1929, and in his petition substantially alleged he was the owner of 36 acres of land on the north bank of the South Canadian river where defendant’s railway crosses on a bridge immediately west of said land, and that defendant had erected and maintained along the south bank and west of the bridge a dike or embankment which is permanent in character, thereby changing the channel and flow of water out of their natural course and direction, over and across plaintiff’s land, which was done by the defendant negligently,…