74 Ga. 712 | Ga. | 1885
This is an action orought by Danielly vs. Cheeves for the recovery of damages alleged to have been done by Cheeves’s cutting a ditch, which turned a smaller stream into one larger, bordering on Danielly’s, at a point much higher up the bordering stream than it formerly ran into it; and thus by banking sand and filling the bed of this stream with it, and also by pouring and backing sand and water on the plaintiff’s land, he had been damagéd. The ditch was cut through Cheeves’s own land and a consenting neighbor’s land, for the purpose of draining Oheeves’s bottoms, but was made to enter into the creek or river bordering on Danielly's land higher up than before, and thus he alleged damaged him, by sanding his land and wetting it and otherwise, so as to make it yield a smaller crop.
The jury found a verdict of one thousand dollars for Danielly, and Cheeves excepted to the refusal of a motion for a new trial, and assigns that refusal as error here.
The points about jurors, newly discovered evidence, etc , need not be considered, as the case goes back for trial, and it would be fruitless to decide them.
On the general ground, that the verdict is contrary to law and to evidence, we decline to pass, as the case may develop the facts more fully, and make the law applicable thereto clearer to the court and easier of application.
Judgment reversed.