Idlewild Farm Co. v. Elkhorn River Drainage District

Plaintiff sued in Dodge county to recover damages for injury to its farm lands which, it is alleged, arose from defendant’s negligence in the installation of drainage construction and diversion works on the banks of the Elkhorn river on and adjacent to a part of that portion of plaintiff’s lands through which the river then flowed. In its natural course the Elkhorn river is a whirling, winding stream and has many abrupt bends; and the works here in question were Installed with the view, in part at least, of materially shortening the river by causing it to flow through a newly formed and…