PHILLIPS v. CHESSON

No. 164.

58 S.E.2d 343 (1950)

231 N.C. 566

PHILLIPS v. CHESSON et al.

Supreme Court of North Carolina.

March 22, 1950.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Hamrick & Hamrick, Sidney L. Truesdale, Rutherfordton, for plaintiff, appellee.

Jones & Davis, Forest City, for defendants, appellants.


SEAWELL, Justice.

With respect to surface water, the duties of owners of adjoining lands respectively on a different level are reciprocal and complementary. The lower land is servient to that on a higher level in the sense that it must receive the natural flow of surface water from the higher land; and the servient owner must dispose of it as best he can without in turn becoming an offender.

Here we are concerned with the duties of the owners or occupants...

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