McMechan v. Yenter

October 12, 1916, plaintiffs in error filed their bill in the circuit court of Adams county against W. E. Yenter, Daniel Graham and Thomas B. Smith, alleging that defendants in error had constructed a tile drain across a road that was then and for more than thirty years had been open to public travel, thereby throwing upon the lands of plaintiffs in error surface waters which would not naturally have flowed upon said lands, and that their lands were greatly damaged by the construction and maintenance of the tile drain. They prayed for a mandatory injunction requiring the removal of the drain.…