Duckworth v. Williams

This dispute between adjoining landowners involves the asserted obstruction of natural watercourses. The appellants, whose land lies north of the appellees’ forty acres, brought this suit to compel the appellees to remove three low earthen levees that they built near the northern border of their land in 1962. The defendants denied that the levees interfered with any natural Avatercourse. The chancellor specifically found that no natural watercourse had been obstructed, but he afforded the plaintiffs some relief by directing that the defendants, at the plaintiffs’ expense, clean out two…