Seventeen, Inc. v. Pilot Life Insurance

Seventeen, Inc. filed an amended bill for an injunction against the City of Chesapeake, Pilot Life Insurance Company, and the State Highway Commissioner, seeking to restrain the defendants, and each of them, from diverting surface water from Pilot’s property into a drainage ditch extending across Seventeen’s property. The trial court, without hearing evidence and without setting forth in the record the basis for its ruling, granted motions to dismiss filed by the City and the State Highway Commissioner and sustained a demurrer filed by Pilot that was treated as a motion to dismiss. We granted…