Michigan Supreme Court October 3, 1883 (Cubit v. O'Dett)

Cooley, J.

The complaint in this case is that defendants have flooded the plaintiff’s land by means of a ditch which they cut along the highway, and which had the effect, while draining their own land lying to the west of him, to cast upon his land a large amount of water which otherwise would not have flowed in that direction.