Railway Co. v. Higdon

The defendant in error was the owner of three hundred and twenty acres of land lying in Polk county, of this State, on both sides of the Hiwassee river, extend-’ ing from the foot of the mountain on the north side of this river to the elevated ground on the south side. His residence stood near the northwest corner of the tract, and a few hundred feet from the north bank of the river. Adjoining him on the west was the tract of one Seymour, and on this was located a spring, the natural flow of which was to the west, until, passing around the *123point of elevated land which extended along the river…