Grace Hodgson Trust v. McClannahan

SACKETT, Presiding Judge.

This case concerns the drainage of surface water located on agricultural bottom land near the Missouri River in Harrison County, Iowa. Plaintiffs Grace Hodgson Trust and John Hodgson own 240 acres in the north half of Section 31, Township 80, Range 44. 1 Defendants James McClannahan and Eileen McClannahan own 240 acres in the south half of the same section. An east-west county gravel road with ditches on each side separates the two tracts. Water from the road ditches flows east to a drainage district ditch. The drainage district ditch flows south. The county…