SHATTLES v. FIELD, BRACKETT & PITTS, INC.

No. 46640.

261 So.2d 795 (1972)

Otis S. SHATTLES v. FIELD, BRACKETT & PITTS, INC., et al.

Supreme Court of Mississippi.

May 8, 1972.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Wiesenburg & Lockard, Pascagoula, for appellant.

Bryan, Gordon, Nelson & Allen, Ernest R. Schroeder, Pascagoula, for appellees.


GILLESPIE, Chief Justice:

This suit involves the collection by the defendants of surface waters from upper lands that formerly flowed onto the lower lands in a diffused state into an eighteen-inch pipe and casting the waters thus concentrated into a drainage ditch that the defendants constructed across the lower lands by wilfully trespassing upon the lower lands. The trial court denied the owner of the lower lands a mandatory...

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