Cornett v. Hebert

This is a suit for injunction, both mandatory and prohibitory, in which the plaintiff seeks to have the defendant ordered to remove a dam or obstruction which he alleges has been constructed by the defendant on his own property at a point where a large culvert situated underneath an irrigation canal takes the drainage water from his property.

Plaintiff alleges that his property and that of the defendant are contiguous; that his property lies directly north of that of the defendant; that it is higher than the defendant's and that the natural flow of water, or the drainage from his property, is…