Lusk v. Onstott

STOKES, Justice.

This is an action for damages instituted by the appellee, B. R.. Onstott, against the appellant, Z. P. Lusk, in which appellee alleged his land had been damaged by overflow surface waters precipitated upon it by the act of appellant in cutting a ditch across the intersection of two public roads. The case was submitted to a jury upon special issues, in answer to which the jury found that by digging certain irrigation ditches upon his land the appellant had changed the natural flow of surface waters thereon, causing an accumulation of such waters in the southeast portion of his…