Pohlman v. Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Co.

Bishop, J.—

Plaintiff is tbe owner of an eighty-acre tract of land in Allamakee county, situated not far distant from the west bank of the Mississippi river. The general slope of the tract, and as well of the lands to the north and west thereof, is to the south and southeast, toward the river, and the surface water collecting on all such lands flows naturally in accordance with such slope. Extending entirely across plaintiff’s land from west to east, and near the south line thereof, is a ravine or hollow, known as “ Poole Hollow,” and into this the surface water naturally drains from the lands…