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Demetrio Maxion Vs. Manila Railroad Co. 044 Phil 597

DEMETRIO MAXION, plaintiff-appellee, vs. THE MANILA RAILROAD COMPANY, defendant-appellant.

G.R. No. 19541 | 1923-03-08

D E C I S I O N


STREET, J .:

This action was instituted in the Court of First Instance of the province of Pangasinan, on August 30, 1915, by the plaintiff, Demetrio Maxion, to recover a sum of money of the defendant, the manila Railroad Company, for damage alleged to have been incurred by the plaintiff in the years 1911-1912, from the destruction of an intake dam on the Bued river and the consequent diversion of water from an irrigation system supplying the plaintiff's lands. The defendant having answered and the cause having been duly heard, his Honor, Judge Vicente Nepomuceno, found the issue of the controversy favorably to the...