Sturges v. City of Meridian

Citations

• 95 Miss. 35
• 48 So. 620

Syllabus

<p>Municipalities. Ditches. Drainage. Prescriptive right.</p> <p>Where a city dug a ditch to drain a certain area of municipal territory and maintained it as originally constructed continuously for more than ten years:—</p> <p>(a) It thereby obtained the right by prescription to maintain it; but</p> <p>(b) Did not acquire the right to enlarge the ditch or increase the flow of water through it.</p>