Any depression or draw two feet below the surrounding lands and having a continuous outlet to a stream of water, or river or brook shall be deemed a watercourse.
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 31-202
Watercourse, defined
Applied in 12 court decisions — leading case Grint v. Hart (1984)
Most recently applied in 33 Neb. Ct. App. 373 - Spady v. Pughes (January 2025)
Laws 1911, c. 142, § 2, p. 466; R.S.1913, § 1772; C.S.1922, § 1719; C.S.1929, § 31-302; R.S.1943, § 31-202.
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