Jenkins v. Steel Cities Chemical Co.

GARDNER. J.

Bill by appellee against appellant seeking an injunction for the abatement of an alleged private nuisance.

The land of complainant upon which is located its manufacturing plant adjoins that of respondent, and through these lands flows a natural branch or stream of water. The averments of the bill disclose that the natural flow of this stream as well as the surfací! water is over and across the property of respondent, and that respondent has in the course of erection a high embankment across the stream, thus causing the natural flow thereof to bo diverted onto the property of…