Moore v. Lawson

McIíaNey, Justice.

Appellants own lands on which they grow rice adjacent to and lying west and north of lands owned by appellee, on which the latter grows cotton, corn and hay. Appellee brought this action to recover damages to his land and crops caused by the negligence of appellants in permitting rice water to flow from their rice lands onto the lands and crops of appellee. He alleged that he prepared five acres of his land in the spring of 1945 to plant in corn, but that appellants flooded his land- after it was prepared to such an extent that he was unable to plant it and was thereby…