Cox v. Deverick

Appellees, Stephen Cox and his children, filed their bill in the circuit court of Jasper county for a mandatory injunction commanding the appellants, Ransom Deverick and Otto Crandall, to remove a dam or obstruction alleged to have been placed by them in a common water-course or ditch. The bill alleges that the appellees are the owners of eighty acres of land north of and adjoining forty acres owned by appellant Deverick and in the possession of appellant Crandall as tenant; that beginning at the north side of appellees’ land and extending south to and across Deverick’s land there is a…