McKee v. Producers & Refiners Corp.

W. R. McKee (husband of plaintiff in error, in whose name this action was revived) sued the Producers & Refiners Corporation and the St. Louis-San Francisco Railway Company (hereinafter referred to as Producers and Frisco, respectively) to recover, for injury to his land, which he alleged was caused by the defendants in elevating their lands immediately adjoining plaintiff’s land, thereby impounding both their own and plaintiff’s surface waters thereon. At the conclusion of the evidence the court directed a verdict for the defendant Producers on the ground that the question of liability was…