Ohio Supreme Court March 3, 1908, No. 10251 (Cleveland, Akron & Columbus Railway Co. v. South)

Spear, J.

The power to appropriate private property for general railroad purposes is given by section 3281 of the Revised Statutes, but whatever right a railroad company has to appropriate the property of others for the purpose of diverting a stream from its natural channel or bed is controlled by section 3284.