Ray-Chuen Chang v. Ragen

How courts have described this case

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• stating that the owner of the servient estate “was undoubtedly required to receive all the waters naturally flowing from the higher ground”
• “[T]he owner of a dominant estate . . . may not dictate the disposition of the waters after passing from his land.”
• “[A]s to the rights of the owner of the servient estate[,] . . . . he may get rid of [surface water] as best he can.”
• “[B]eyond announcing the rule that as between dominant and servient estate owners, the latter must take the flowage, and may not cast it back, the authorities are silent as to any further duty owing to the former.”
• “[W]ater while upon the land becomes a part of the estate.”
• “[T]he necessity, out of which the servitude is born, is obviously satisfied by acceptance at all times of the water to the extent of the natural flow. Where necessity ends, the reason for the rule, and hence the rule itself, ends.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).