Dalon v. City of DeSoto

How courts have described this case

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• noting that creek in which water flowed was natural waterway, and that once rainfall entered creek, it was no longer surface water
• holding mere negligence in approving upstream development not actionable
• holding mere negligence in approving upstream development not actionable
• stating, “[sjurface water loses its identity as surface water when it becomes a part of [a] creek whereas, in the cases cited by appellants, the surface water remains surface water since it is being diverted by artificial means.”
• stating, “[s]urface water loses its identity as surface water when it becomes a part of [a] creek whereas, in the cases cited by appellants, the surface water remains surface water since it is being diverted by artificial means.”
• “[T]he surface water remains surface water since it is being diverted by artificial means.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).