Robinson v. Shanks

This suit was brought by the appellant against the appellees in the circuit' court of Dearborn county, the complaint charging that the appellant and the appellee Rachel Shanks are adjoining land-owners; that there is an ancient watercourse, called Leeper’s run, passing through said appellee’s land and across the line dividing their lands; that for more than twenty years the water discharged from said watercourse was carried off by an artificial canal, constructed by appellant’s grantor on appellant’s land, into another stream called Salt Fork of Tanner’s creek, thus protecting appellant’s…