Dent v. Alexander

Appellants instituted this suit against appellees seeking injunctive relief. They .alleged, in effect, that appellees diverted overflow or surface water from their own lands into drainage ditches, accelerated the flow of the water, and caused it to flow upon the lands of appellants in an unnatural channel and in increased volume.

More specifically, they alleged that they “without the consent of plaintiffs, (appellants) or either of them and over the protest of plaintiffs, cut a ditch across ... a natural barrier of higli ground . . : to a deptli of three or four feet and also deepened or cut a…