Holbrook v. Appleberry

Lyle Brown, Justice.

This is a dispute between adjoining landowners concerning their respective rights and responsibilities with respect to a drainage ditch which flows along their common boundary line, thence across appellant’s land and into a bayou. The chancellor held that the ditch is a mutual or common ditch; that both parties possess a drainage easement across the lands of the other; that neither party can obstruct the drain without the consent of the other; that the parties are entitled to have the ditch restored to its former depth and width; that each party should pay the expense of…