Moody v. Van Wechel

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that there was “insufficient evidence to fix damages” for crop loss when the plaintiffs “speculative estimates” made “no allowance . . . for damages the crops would ordinarily receive from surface drainage”
• finding insufficient evidence to support a claim for damages where there was no showing of the value of the damaged crops
• “Water from a dominant estate must be allowed to flow in its natural course onto a servient estate.”
• “When the parties themselves cannot agree on a plan to clear the obstructions, an equity court should, as it did here, devise one.”
• “Water from a dominant estate must be allowed to flow in its natural course onto a servient estate. The flow may not be diverted by obstructions erected or caused by either estate holder.”
• “The servient estate is obligated to receive water . . . .”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).