Benavides v. Gonzalez

How courts have described this case

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• holding that “[u]nprecedented rainfall or Act of God is uniformly recognized as a good defense” to diversions of water.
• address- ing defense to Texas statute prohibiting “any person to di- vert the natural flow of surface waters in this State or to impound such waters in such manner as to damage the property of another by overflow of such waters so diverted or impounded”
• address- ing defense to Texas statute prohibiting “any person to di- vert the natural flow of surface waters in this State or to impound such waters in such manner as to damage the property of another by overflow of such waters so diverted or impounded”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).