Porter v. . Armstrong

The plaintiff instituted this proceeding against the defendant by filing his petition in the office of the clerk of the Superior Court and issuing a summons in accordance with the provisions of chapter 30, section 1297, of the Code, alleging ownership of a tract of "swamp, flat or low land" — particularly described — known as the "Pigford farm." That the defendants were the owners of said land adjoining and "below the said Pigford farm"; that a portion of his land was ditched, cleared and under cultivation and was subject to inundation and sog. It could not be drained except by clearing or…