Bishop Eddie Long Ministries, Inc. v. Dillard

Blackburn, Presiding Judge.

In these related cases involving ongoing disputes about easements to use a lake, Bishop Eddie Long Ministries, Inc., and Richard and Susan Adle sued G. Douglas Dillard, John Cowart, Robert J. Rutland, and Hunt Valley, Inc., for nuisance and trespass arising out of the defendants’ decisions to no longer maintain a dam and to drain a lake on which plaintiffs owned lakefront property. Defendants counterclaimed for trespass, conversion, and nuisance arising out of plaintiffs’ harvesting of defendants’ trees and efforts to refill the lake by plugging up the dam’s…