Styers v. Johnson

Tom Glaze, Judge.

This case involves riparian rights. The parties’ dispute focuses on a spring that originates on appellants’ land and flows into Mill Creek which provides appellees with water for irrigation, drinking and other domestic purposes. In March 1984, appellants applied to the Arkansas Soil and Water Conservation Commission (Commission) for a dam permit which was issued the following May. In August 1984, appellees filed this suit against appellants, alleging appellants constructed a dam which wrongfully impounded waters on their land and obstructed the flow of water to Mill Creek.…