Wachter v. Lange

The plaintiffs, who are separate owners of distinct tracts of land lying in sections 23 and 26, town 7, range 5, complain that the defendants Lange and Cundall, who own, respectively, the northeast ¿ of section 23 and the northwest ¿of section 24, in the same town and range, and the other defendants, who are members of the town board of. Sutton township, have by means of certain tile drains and open ditches drained a lagoon of 60 to 80 acres in extent lying in the lands of Lange and Cundall, con*291trary to the usual and natural course of drainage, and in such a manner as to divert and throw upon…