City of Mobile v. Lartigue

William A. Lartigue owned or leased property adjacent to the municipal airport of the city of Mobile, and sued the city of Mobile and John R. Peavy, a city engineer, for damages, claiming in short that, although the lands in his possession wore lower than the airport, so that the surface water drained naturally from the airport over his ground, the city, in attempting to drain the airport, had caused water to be discharged upon his field in much greater quantities than the natural flow of the water from the dominant to the servient tenement, with the result that a crop of snap beans which the…