Isbell v. Lennox

The nature of the case is sufficiently disclosed by the following brief statement of the case by the Honorable Court of Civil Appeals:

“This was a suit by appellants against appellees for damages they claimed they had suffered as a result, they charged, of the act of appellees in so diverting water from its natural course on their land as to cause same to flow upon and injure appellants’ land. In their petition appellants alleged that the diversion was of surface water and of the waters of Boggy Creek, a tributary of Lankford Creek, by means of a dam and levee appellees constructed on their…