Southern Railway Co. v. Ward

1. Where a petition alleges that the plaintiff was damaged by an overflow 'of bottom lands, caused by back water produced by an obstruction placed by defendant in a creek, such allegation is supported by proof that a ditch through such land, crossing such creek 'one or more times and ending in the same, through part of which ditch the water of such creek flowed, and into which other streams flowed on their way to the run of such creek, was partly filled by sand from such back water, whereby the water which formerly flowed through such ditch overflowed such land.

2. The testimony of…