Metcalf v. Glaze

Opinion by

HOOKER, C.

Metcalf sued Glaze to recover damages caused by an overflow of water which he asserts was diverted from its usual and natural channel by obstructions alleged to have been placed therein by defendant.

The petition alleges that .plaintiff and defendant owned adjoining farms in Alfalfa county with a public highway between, plaintiff’s land lying east, and defendant’s west of said highway; that a natural water course carrying water only in times of heavy rainfall takes its rise in the hills south of said land, runs north, crossing the eastern part of defendant's land, and prior…