Case Name: Lankford v. Simms
Court: Supreme Court of Georgia
Jurisdiction: Georgia
Decision Date: 1949-05-12
Citations: 205 Ga. 349
Docket Number: No. 16630
Parties: Lankford v. Simms.
Judges: All the Justices concur.
Reporter: Georgia Reports
Volume: 205
Pages: 349–349

Head Matter:
Lankford v. Simms.
No. 16630.
May 12, 1949.
Harris & Harris, for plaintiff.
Maddox & Maddox, for defendant.

Opinion:
Duckworth, Chief Justice.
1. "Where the main purpose of the injunction is not to require affirmative action, such as the opening of a hole in a wall, or the like, but to restrain diversion of the water from the natural channel in which it formerly flowed, and causing it to overflow and to collect on the property of another, the injunction is not a mandatory one." Spencer v. Tumlin, 155 Ga. 341, 343 (116 S. E. 600). To the same effect see Sweetman v. Owens, 147 Ga. 436 (94 S. E. 542).
2. Applying the above stated principle of law to the allegations of the' petition as amended, that the petitioner and the defendant were adjoining owners of described lots of land, that the defendant had cut a ditch extending onto the petitioner's land which caused the rainfall on the defendant's land to accumulate in a central ditch and be deposited on the land of the petitioner, and that the defendant thereby created a continuing nuisance and caused irreparable damage, and in which petition an injunction was prayed for, the court erred in sustaining the general demurrer that no cause of action was set forth.
Judgment reversed.
All the Justices concur.