Parklawn, Inc. v. Giant Food, Inc.

This is the third appeal—and we hope the last—in proceedings brought below by Parklawn, Inc., a cemetery corporation (appellant and cross-appellee), against upper landowners to obtain relief and redress from the periodic flooding of a part of its cemetery lands by the stream which runs through the cemetery. In 1964 Park-lawn filed suit against Washington-Rockville Industrial Park, Inc. and forty others, and in 1965 filed another suit against Giant Food, Inc., appellee and cross-appellant, and another. Both suits claimed damages from thé defendants for negligently causing excessive water,…