Kilgore v. Grevemberg

This action is brought by the plaintiff to compel the defendants to close certain ditches which throw the water in large quantities upon the plantation of plaintiff, and to recover damages in consequence of the same.

The defendants’ plantation is situated upon the Bayou Teche, and extends back, as to a part of the same, between two and three miles.

The plaintiff’s plantation is situated a short distance in the rear of the defendants’ plantation, a tract of land intervening between them.

At the termination of the upper line of the defendants’ plantation, (this line not extending back the whole…