Frazier v. Rollins’s Empirical Analysis

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1 state decisions

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1. ““The evidence in this case shows that the plaintiffs cleaned out and changed ditches and diverted water by preventing its flow to the westward over their levees on their land. Now, if you believe from the evidence that in cleaning out and changing said ditches the natural flow or outlet for the water was narrowed or diminished in places, or enlarged in places, and that such construction of said ditches and levees and diversion of the water, or any of it, from its natural course proximately caused or contributed to the accumulation of water and the overflowing and damage, if any, to the plaintiffs’ land and crops, you will find for the defendant.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Moody v. Vandergriff