McDougal v. Lame

1. The only question presented by this appeal is ■whether the defendant, at the time he purchased his land, had such knowledge of the existence of plaintiffs’ right to maintain the ditch across his premises as would amount to notice thereof. The rule is well settled in this state that whatever fact is sufficient to direct the attention of a reasonably prudent man to the prior rights and suxierior equities of a third party, who is a stranger to the title, so as to cause him to make inquiry in respect thereto, which, if x^'osecuted with ordinary diligence, must necessarily result in knowledge…