Lambert v. Alcorn

This was a bill in chancery, brought by Menzo Lambert and Hannibal Hill against Joseph Alcorn, to restrain the defendant from putting in a system of tile drains on his own land, and extending the same across certain adjoining land belonging to Mary Wilson, whereby the surface water on the defendant’s land would be discharged into a ditch in a public highway, whence it would flow on to and across the lands of the complainants towards a stream known as Indian Creek. The defendant is the owner of a tract of land of somewhat irregular shape, containing about 160 acres, the north line of the tract…