Newton Coca Cola Bottling Co. v. Murphrey

This is an appeal by the Newton Coca Cola Bottling Company, a corporation, defendant in the Court below, from a decree of the Chancery Court of Newton County in favor of Edward Bay Murphrey, complainant in the court below, awarding damages to the complainant for the wrongful diversion of surface waters onto the land owned by the complainant, and enjoining the defendant from discharging excess surface waters from its own land upon the land of complainant.

The appellee, Edward Bay Murphrey, was the owner of a tract of land in the Town of Newton fronting southwardly on U. S. Highway No. 80 and…