Talley v. Baker

J. A. Talley and his two sisters were the owners of a tract of forty-three acres of land in Green county, Tennessee. They filed a bill against Mrs. Nancy C. Baker, who owned an adjoining farm to complainants. The purpose of the bill was to have Mrs. Baker remove a certain obstruction that she had placed in a certain ditch that had been the means of carrying off the water from complainant’s farm and the defendant’s farm and a number of other farms, which water was carried into Lick creek, and it was also alleged that by this obstruction the defendant had placed in the ditch near complainants’…