Rolfsmeyer v. Seward County

The issues in this case ultimately revolve around the question of where the natural drainway of the surface waters which entered into and arose on the plaintiffs Rolfsmeyers’ land was located.

This is an action in equity wherein it is alleged that the defendant, County of Seward, Nebraska, had removed culverts from the county road bordering plaintiffs’ land and raised said road forming a dike which blocked the natural drainageway of plaintiffs’ land causing flooding and erosion. Plaintiffs generally sought an injunction requiring the defendant County to open the drainageway by appropriate…