Willacy County Water Control & Improvement Dist. No. 1 v. Cantrell

MURRAY, Justice.

This suit was instituted by S. R. Cantrell against Willacy County Water Control and Improvement District No. One and Willacy County, seeking to recover the sum of $620.50 damages alleged to have been caused by an overflow of land rented by Cantrell for farming purposes, alleged to have been occasioned by the construction, jointly by said District and said County, of a large drainage ditch from a point near -Raymondville extending east across Willacy County and emptying into Bowden Lake or Lagoon, near Cantrell’s rented land, and the construction of various laterals into said…