Nelson v. Consolidated Sand & Stone Co.

The plaintiffs instituted an action against the defendant to recover damages to plaintiffs’ property located northeast of Sioux Falls and east of the Big Sioux river in Minnehaha county, S. D. It would seem that plaintiffs’ farm is well suited to raising crops, and that there is considerable evidence showing that it has good and fertile black soil, and that a portion of the land was being destroyed on account of the accumulation of gravel and sand thereon by reason of the flow of sandy water from defendant’s sand plant located on a hill to the east of plaintiffs’ real estate, where the…