DeVore Farms, Inc. v. Butler Hunting Club, Inc.

Minor W. Millwee, Associate Justice.

This is a suit by appellant, De Vore Farms, Inc., to restrain appellee, Butler Hunting Club Inc., from maintaining a dam across a bayou which allegedly obstructed the natural flow of said bayou and proper drainage of appellant’s lands. Appellant also alleged that its lands had been rendered valueless for the purpose of growing timber, and damages in the sum of $20,000.00 were asked for merchantable timber already destroyed by reason of the flooding of its lands.

In its answer, appellee admitted maintenance of the dam upon its lands since 1938 but denied that…