Anderson v. Rice

This is an appeal from an order of the circuit judge dismissing plaintiff’s petition that defendant be punished for contempt. Plaintiff and defendant owned farms separated by a north and south highway; defendant’s land being the easterly parcel. The original decree restrained each of -the parties from obstructing or altering the natural flow of surface water. At intervals there was an accumulation of water on the easterly portion of defendant’s land. The primary outlet for this water was in a northerly direction; but defendant claims in times of high water it also drained in a westerly…