Naporra v. Weckwerth

Defendant appealed from a judgment.

Charles N. Norton formerly owned the 80 acres of land now owned by plaintiff. Edward Weckwerth then owned the land adjoining on the west which is now owned by defendant. Silas Keochel owned land adjoining the Naporra land on the east. The surface water naturally flows to the west. It finds a ravine on defendant’s land perhaps 30 rods from the Naporra land.

In the fall of 1908 Norton and Keochel employed Emil Sahler to construct with a ditching machine an open ditch from the Keochel land across the Naporra land and onto and across the Weckwerth land to said…