State Roads Commission v. Preston

This is an appeal from a decree of the Circuit Court for Harford County granting the appellees’ prayer for a permanent injunction to enjoin the appellant from causing or permitting surface water from State Route 22 to flow onto the appellees’ land, and to fill a ditch which appellant has made on the land of the appellees.

The appellees, Benjamin Burdell Preston and his wife, are the owners of a tract of land in Harford County, which now contains approximately 35 acres, fronting on the general southerly side of the Aberdeen-Churchville Road, known as Maryland State Route No. 22, for a distance…