La Fleur v. Kolda

The plaintiffs seek to enjoin the maintenance of ditches in the highway through which surface waters are drained from a basin or pond located on the highway and on the properties of two of the individual defendants into a larger basin or .pond located in part upon the property of one of the plaintiffs. The trial court entered judgment for defendants and plaintiffs have appealed.

The properties described by the evidence are on opposite sides of a north and south highway in Yankton County. At the north on the east side of the highway is a quarter owned by defendant Frank Kolda. Immediately south…