Zigler v. Menges

— The appellee petitioned for the construction of a ditch, and the appellant remonstrated against it. A special verdict was returned, of which this is the substance : The lands along the entire line of the proposed ditch, except for a distance of three hundred feet at the lower end, are wet and marshy. The natural trend of the land through which the ditch will run is such as to cause the surface water, when unobstructed, to flow from a southeast direction north and west, in the general direction of the ditch. Before the Lake Shore and Michigan Railroad was built, which was about the year…