Powell v. Riley

In the partition of the lands of the estate of their father, made by the county court in 1881, certain land on the Holston river was allotted to the complainant, Mary E., wife 'of E. D. Powell, and a portion of the same tract immediately below on the river was allotted to the defendant, A. K. Riley. The father during his life had dug and kept open a large ditch through the land constituting the two allotments, parallel to the river, for the purpose of draining the land, which was wet and marshy, and of carrying off the water coming from some springs on the hills above. The defendant’…