Dodge v. Millard

DOWD, Presiding Judge.

A water drainage case.

Equitable action to enjoin defendants from maintaining dam in natural drainway causing water to back up and flood portions of plaintiff’s land. Defendants appeal from mandatory injunction requiring removal of dam.

The lands of plaintiff and defendants adjoin in a configuration best illustrated by the letter “H”, with defendants’ land lying to the north above the letter's crossbar, and plaintiff’s land generally corresponding to the southern or bottom portion, with the exception of the northwest (or, upper left) quadrant thereof. This northwest…