Hodgkin v. Louisville & Nashville Railroad

Opinion of the Court by

Drury, Commissioner—

Affirming.

The jury below found for appellee in an action begun by appellant wherein he sought to recover of appellee $12,000.00 for damages to his property by overflows of Chamberlain branch in 1917 and 1920, caused, as he claims, by appellee. The appellant’s property lies in the valley of Chamberlain branch. This stream is a tributary of the Kentucky river and has a watershed of about 250 acres, the greater part of which is very steep. This branch is about two miles long, and the appellant’s property adjoins the property owned by the appellee, on…