Bures v. Stephens

This is a suit in equity to enjoin defendants from draining surface waters from their lands upon the plaintiff’s land. The plaintiff appeals from a judgment in favor of defendants denying the injunction sought.

The plaintiff owns the E. of the N. E. J4 of section 2, township 6, range 2 west of the sixth P. M., and the several defendants own all the remainder of the section. Upon the land of the defendants there is a large basin embracing about 300 acres in which surface water collects. This basin has no natural outlet and until the construction of the artificial ditch, which is the subject of…