Beem v. Davis

A suit was begun by the defendants in this proceeding on the first of June, 1920, against the plaintiffs herein to restrain and enjoin them from constructing ditches to drain a body of water known as Felts lake situated in Cherry county. The petition charges that, if the defendants (now plaintiffs) completed the work of digging the ditches they were then at work upon, it would cause large volumes of water to be thrown out of their natural courses over the *97hay and meadow lands of the petitioners to their great and irreparable damage. Summons was duly servéd. At the November, 1920, term of…