Sevier Lake Drainage Dist. v. Kinney

The appellant was organized into a drainage district in 1913, and, in 1923, obtained an order from the chancery court permitting it to extend and enlarge some of its ditches and do other additional work. After this order was obtained, one of the ditches of the district was extended into the appellee’s land, and this suit is by the appellee to recover from the district damages for the taking of the land composing the ditch, and for damages to other of the appellee’s land, resulting from the manner in which the dirt taken out of the ditch was disposed of.

The court below declined to direct a…