Legal Opinion
Weimer v. Cauble
Supreme Court of Georgia
Decided January 12, 1959No. 20273PublishedCited by 16 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Head, Justice.
Where two city lots adjoin, the lower owes a servitude to the higher to receive the water which naturally flows upon it, provided the owner of the higher lot has done no act to increase such flow. Goldsmith v. Elsas, May & Co., 53 Ga. 186. The owner of the higher lot, however, would have no right to concentrate and collect surface water by the erection of buildings and cause it to be discharged upon the lower lot in a greater quantity or in a different manner from that in which the water would have flowed upon it by the law of gravitation. Hendrix v. McEachern, 164 Ga. 457, 459…
2Cases cited9 opinions
- Williams v. HarrisSupreme Court of Georgia · 1951
- Central of Georgia Railway Co. v. Americus Construction Co.Supreme Court of Georgia · 1909
- Milton v. MiltonSupreme Court of Georgia · 1942
- Goldsmith v. Elsas, May & Co.Supreme Court of Georgia · 1874
- Cox v. MartinSupreme Court of Georgia · 1950
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3Cited by16 opinions
- Bodin v. GillSupreme Court of Georgia · 1960
- Georgia Power Co. v. WombleCourt of Appeals of Georgia · 1979
- United States Fidelity & Guaranty Co. v. Paul Associates, Inc.Court of Appeals of Georgia · 1998
- Gill v. First Christian Church, Atlanta, Georgia, Inc.Supreme Court of Georgia · 1960
- Marshall v. Georgia Power CompanyCourt of Appeals of Georgia · 1975
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