4 Willson 41 | Tex. App. | 1889
Opinion by
§ 23. Receivers; limitations; action commenced against one of two joint receivers arrests running, as to both, of statute of Appellees instituted this suit April 4, 1888, against Dillingham, N. S. Easton and James Rintoul, as receivers of the Texas Central Railway Company, alleging that on April 10, 1886, they, as joint receivers of said railway, at a point on said railway where the same runs through appellees’ farm, negligently and unskilfully erected and maintained an embankment on its right of way and certain ditches leading thereto with an insufficient culvert; that during all ordinary rains, said culvert, by reason of sand and weeds and stubble, choked, and thus forced the water back over appellees’ farm so as to destroy the growing crops thereupon, to appellees’ damage $1,000. On July 21, 1888, defendants filed their original answer, consisting of general demurrer and general denial. On July 25, 1888, more than two years after the alleged embankment and ditches had been erected, appellees filed what they styled their ‘c first amended original petition,” wherein they say that Nelson S. Easton
Affirmed.