Benthall v. Seifert

Newcomb, C.

The nature and purpose of this action are stated as follows in the brief of counsel for the appellee:

“This action was brought for a private nuisance caused by the erection of a levee or embankment which stopped the natural flow of surface or rain water over the lands of the parties. The complaint, after describing the lands of the parties to the record, continues : Said plaintiff further says that over the said lands of the plaintiff and defendant, and for several miles to the north and south thereof, there is, and has been time whereof the memory of man runneth not to the…