Pearce v. Scott

ROBB, Associate Justice.

Appeal from a decree in the Supreme Court of the District enjoining appellant (defendant below) “from the further maintenance of any obstruction or interference with the natural flow or drainage of water from the lands of plaintiff” (appellee here), and for the damages sustained.

The parties are adjoining lot owners in that section of the District of Columbia known as Anaeostia. The lots slope in the same direction, the lot of the defendant being lower than that of thó plaintiff, so that surface water resulting from rain or melting snow originally flowed from…