Cook v. Rupp

WASSERSTROM, Judge.

This is an action for mandatory injunction to require defendant Rupp to take certain remedial action to prevent flooding on the land of plaintiff Cook. The trial court granted part of the relief requested. Defendant Rupp appealed with respect to the relief granted, and plaintiffs appealed as to the relief denied. We affirm.

Rupp and Cook own adjoining land within Halls Levee District, just north of Old Mud Lake. Until the latter part of 1975, most of the Rupp tract was marsh land unsuitable for farming. Some of the eastern portion of the Cook land, lying immediately west of…