Court Opinion

ID: 9808669
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-31 20:46:15.241299+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T12:16:57.311126
License: Public Domain

Shepherd, J.
(dissenting): Conceding that the defendant has a right to cut the ditch and conduct the surface water into a natural stream passing through its right-of-way, the privilege must necessarily be attended with the qualification that the ditch should not be so constructed as to divert the surface water from the direction in which, by the general inclination of the land, it naturally flows and discharge it, to the injury of others, into a stream which is inadequate to receive it. I think that from the testimony of the plaintiff (who was examined in his own béhalf), there was some evidence of this latter view, and, although it may have been slight, it warranted his Honor in refusing instructions which entirely ignored the very important qualification I have mentioned.
Per Curiam. . Error.