Woolston v. Blythe

This is an action to recover damages alleged to have been sustained by reason of the wrongful diversion of Sugar Creek, a watercourse in Buchanan and Platte counties, in Missouri.

The petition charges that defendants, acting together in conspiracy, turned the waters of said creek from the channel in which the same had theretofore been running across the lands of plaintiff, resulting in the loss of the use of .said lands during the years 1908, 1909 and 1910. The record shows that Sugar Creek is a living stream flowing from the hills in Buchanan county upon the bottom lands in Platte county. In…