Gill v. First Christian Church, Atlanta, Georgia, Inc.

Hawkins, Justice.

1. “Where two city lots adjoin, the lower lot owes a servitude to the higher, so far as to receive the water which naturally runs from it, provided the owner of the latter has done 'no act to increase such flow by artificial means.” Goldsmith v. Elsas, May & Co., 53 Ga. 186; Hendrix v. McEachern, 164 Ga. 457 (1) (139 S. E. 9). “As to surface water, one land proprietor has no right to concentrate and collect it, and thus cause it to be discharged upon the land of a lower proprietor in greater quantities at a particular locality, or in a manner different from that in which the…