Wood v. Moulton

Defendants are the owners of a large tract of land. Plaintiff’s land (twenty acres in extent) is contiguous to, and lower in elevation than, defendants’ land. It is charged that defendants in preparing their land for cultivation changed the course of surface water which in times of rain accumulated in a ravine in the hills upon their property, erected an embankment across the original wash which these surface waters followed, and constructed a new channel for them to the canal of the Riverside Water Company. The result was, that under a heavy, rainfall the waters rushed over the land and down…