Garrett v. Haworth

This is an action for damages for the obstruction of what plaintiff contends is a natural water course causing flood water to back up on to his premises. Plaintiff, Mack Haworth, owned a tract of land in the Arkansas river bottom, and leased another tract owned by E. E Pratt, adjoining plaintiff’s land on the northeast, which he operated as a farm. The defendant, Sid Garrett, owned a tract of land directly east of the leased premises, separated by a county road running north and south. It was alleged that from time immemorial a natural water course, which drained the surrounding area,…