Rattan v. Woods

The parties to this suit own adjoining tracts of land in Fannin county, situated near a stream called Sulphur. The land .owned by Woods, the appellee, lies to the west, that owned by Rattan, the appellant, lies to the east, of their dividing line. There is a small ditch, or water course, on the land of Woods, running in a'southeasterly direction across the land of Rattan; toward Sulphur. Some time during the year 1921 Rattan built a dam across that ditch, or water course, at the point where it entered upon his land. The effect of that dam was to cause the surface water collected in the ditch…