Rynestad v. Clemetson

STRUTZ, Judge.

This is an action involving the drainage •of surface waters. The plaintiff and appellant, Betsy Rynestad, is the owner of •certain lands which lie below lands owned by the defendants Sidney A. Clemetson, Earl L. Clemetson, Carl Clemetson, Ernest H. A. Fischer, and Mathilda A. Kelly, who will be referred to hereafter in this opinion as “upper landowners.” These upper 'landowners, by various ditching operations, •contained surface waters and runoff which formerly had meandered over their lands and gathered in potholes and sloughs, discharging such waters into a natural drain-way…