Peak v. Parks

MURDOCK, Judge.

Jimmy DeWayne Parks and Parks & Son Excavating, Inc., excavated approximately 50 acres of land that was owned by Jimmy DeWayne Parks’s mother and father, Judie Faye Parks and Jimmy Clyde Parks, for the purpose of developing part of the Pine Island Point subdivision on. Lake Guntersville. William C. Peak and Joyce S. Peak, landowners who owned a lakefront house adjacent to the excavated land, appeal from a judgment of the Marshall Circuit Court awarding them $2,500 in compensatory damages and $500 in punitive damages for damage that allegedly resulted from surface-water runoff…