Grant v. Katson

The parties in this case are adjoining neighbors on a sloping portion of East-West Highway in Chevy Chase, Maryland. The appellants, Daniel Grant and his wife, live downhill on this natural watershed and have been at war for some years now with their uphill neighbors’ surface water. Alleging that Mr. and Mrs. James Katson, their next door neighbors on the East above them, had caused an excessive concentration and diversion of the surface flow into their backyard, the Grants brought an action against the Katsons for continuing trespass, coupled with a prayer for an injunction, in the Circuit…