Blessing v. Blair

The appellants sued the appellee for diverting the water of Little Blue river from its accustomed channel, where it had flowed immemorially through their land, ■on which was erected a distillery and hog pens in which to feed hogs the slop from the distillery. It is alleged in the complaint that there were drains on the appellants’ land, • which conducted the offal from the pens into the river, whence it was floated by the water down the river; that the appellee constructed across the river, above the plaintiffs' land, an obstruction which totally diverted the water into another channel and…