Walden v. Payne

How courts have described this case

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• adopting and applying the natural-flow rule where the plaintiffs and the defendant’s land were not directly adjoining
• “The defendant as a landowner had the right to turn or expel upon the land of an adjacent owner, surface water that would naturally flow there, and in such quantities as would naturally drain in such direction, without liability for damages.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).