Salzman v. Sumner Township

The defendants, Sumner Township and its highway commissioner, appeal from the trial court’s injunctive order which requires them to clean out certain culverts and ditches, raise a sunken culvert, and install culverts at one water crossing to improve the drainage of surface water from the plaintiffs’ property. We affirm.

The plaintiffs, owners of certain farmland located in Sumner Township, filed a complaint against the township and its highway commissioner alleging that the defendants raised the roads, failed to provide adequate drainage, and diverted the natural flow of surface waters, all of…