Belton v. Wateree Power Co.

The opinion of the Court en banc was delivered by

Mr. Justice Cothran.

Action for $2,000.00 damages on account of injury alleged to have been sustained by the erection of a certain dam across the Wateree or Catawba River at Getty’s Shoals. It is alleged that the dam raised the water in the channel of the river and the streams, ditches, drains, and- hollows upon the plaintiff’s land, throwing it-back upon the bottom land, obstructing- the natural drainage, and injuring it for agricultural purposes; and that the backwater caused the formation of pools and stagnant water on or near plaintiff’s…