Latham v. Pasquotank Highway Commission

This is in form and substance an action of trespass for unlawfully and wrongfully entering upon the plaintiff’s land and injuring and damaging the same, and of unlawfully and wrongfully appropriating a part of the land to their own use. That while thus in the unlawful possession of the said land defendants wrongfully and tortiously committed certain depredations thereon, which were greatly injurious to it. That they changed the natural flow of the water on the land in tbe ditches and caused water to accumulate and be dammed or retained thereon, and forced water from other lands in upon the…