Turner v. Smith

This suit was brought by fourteen landowners and two tenants to enjoin the appellant, T. B. Turner, from maintaining a reservoir which is alleged to obstruct the natural drainage of the plaintiffs’ lands. The plaintiffs also asked damages for crop destruction that occurred in 1948 as a result of inundation caused by the Turner reservoir. Other landowners intervened to assert similar causes of action. The chancellor, after hearing testimony for eight days and after viewing the area in question, entered judgments totaling $6,773 and issued a mandatory injunction requiring Turner to cut 500-foot…