From Casetext: Smarter Legal Research

Bussell v. McClellan

Supreme Court of Nebraska
Nov 21, 1952
55 N.W.2d 606 (Neb. 1952)

Opinion

No. 33142.

Filed November 21, 1952.

APPEAL from the district court for Greeley County: WILLIAM F. SPIKES, JUDGE. On oral argument on motion for rehearing. See 155 Neb. 875, 54 N.W.2d 81, for original opinion. Opinion modified. Motion for rehearing denied.

P. J. Barrett and Blackledge Sidner, for appellants.

Davis Vogeltanz and Kirkpatrick Dougherty, for appellees.

Heard before SIMMONS, C. J., CARTER, MESSMORE, YEAGER, CHAPPELL, WENKE, and BOSLAUGH, JJ.


SUPPLEMENTAL OPINION


The following is substituted for the last paragraph of the opinion which was adopted in this case and with this substitution the motion for rehearing is denied:

The decree is reversed and the cause remanded with directions to the district court to render a decree in favor of plaintiffs and against the defendants enjoining the defendants from collecting and combining the surface waters on their respective lands and as combined discharging them upon the lands of plaintiffs, and from continuing and maintaining the works above the Malottke land the effect of which is to allow the combination of waters above with those on the land of the defendant Malottke and as thus combined to be carried onto the lands of plaintiffs.

OPINION MODIFIED. MOTION FOR REHEARING DENIED.


Summaries of

Bussell v. McClellan

Supreme Court of Nebraska
Nov 21, 1952
55 N.W.2d 606 (Neb. 1952)
Case details for

Bussell v. McClellan

Case Details

Full title:DAROLD E. BUSSELL ET AL., APPELLANTS, v. CLIFTON McCLELLAN ET AL.…

Court:Supreme Court of Nebraska

Date published: Nov 21, 1952

Citations

55 N.W.2d 606 (Neb. 1952)
55 N.W.2d 606

Citing Cases

Keim v. Downing

Surface water is a common enemy and an owner of real estate may fight it as his judgment dictates, but an…

Clare v. County of Lancaster

It does not follow however from this that the plaintiffs are entitled to relief. The true rule in this…