Barnard v. Commissioners of Highways

Mr. Justice. Wall

delivered the opinion oe the Court.

This was a bill in chancery filed by appellant to restrain appellees from, removing a certain bridge from a highway and filling the space covered thereby with earth, which, as alleged, would obstruct the natural flow of water from the land of appellant. It was averred that the natural course of drainage was from the appellant’s land over the land traversed by the highway, and that the grade, having been raised, kept the water back, so that the bridge was necessary to permit the escape of the water in the natural course and that after the…