Parklawn, Inc. v. Nee

Suit was instituted in the Circuit Court for Montgomery County by Parklawn, Inc., plaintiff-appellant, against some forty-two defendants, who were alleged to be owners, lessors, and improvers of land near the plaintiff’s cemetery. The declaration charged that:

“These defendants have since 1962 graded, built upon and otherwise developed their property for their economic benefit from its natural state into an industrial and commercial complex and use, in such a manner as to copiously increase the run-off of water, dirt, silt and debris onto the land of plaintiff. These defendants were negligent…