79 Miss. 238 | Miss. | 1901
delivered the opinion of the court.
A causeway was built along the public highway where it passes over the land of the plaintiff below, and was, it is said, so negligently constructed that great injury was inflicted upon said plaintiff. It appears from the evidence that a drain across the highway would have obviated the injury, if such drain had been suitably constructed, and the plaintiff had availed himself of its use. But the negligent or wrongful construction of the causeway, if taken to be proven, was the work solely of the
Affirmed.