Lauck v. Gilbert
Mississippi Supreme Court
1Opinion of the CourtKyle, P. J.
This case is before us on appeal by O. D. Lauck d/b/a/ the Meridian Memorial Park Cemetery, defendant in the court below, from a decree of the Chancery Court of Lauderdale County rendered in favor of Joe Gilbert, complainant, awarding damages to the complainant in the amount of $1500 for the wrongful ob struction of the natural flow of water through a large drainage ditch running through the western side of the Meridian Memorial Park Cemetery land and thereby causing water to back up on the land of the complainant lying immediately north of the defendant’s land and to fill up with sand the…
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