34 Ind. App. 124 | Ind. Ct. App. | 1904
Suit to quiet title to an alleged easement or license, and for damages for interfering therewith.
In their complaint appellants aver that they own about eighteen acres of land, described, which lies immediately east of eight acres owned by appellees; that in 1893 appellees invited and gave permission to appellants to tile-drain their lands through appellees’ land so long as it .might be necessary to drain the. same; that in pursuance thereto appellants constructed two tile-drains through their own and appellees’ land; that afterwards, in 1901, appellees removed the tiling without appellants’ knowledge or consent, filled the ditch and rendered the same useless, whereby appellants’ land is rendered unfit for cultivation; that for ten years appellants enjoyed the right to maintain such drain without hindrance on the part of appellees until the time above mentioned.
Appellees answered, in their second paragraph, that in 1893 they gave appellants permission to join tile, fo be laid on appellants’ land, to each of two tile-drains appellees had theretofore constructed across their own land; that appellees then had a good outlet for their tile-drains, extending a few rods across the lands of one Miller, and with his consent, and emptying into a public ditch; that appellants laid a few rods of tile on their own land, and connected the same with appellees’ lines of tile; that thereupon Miller refused to permit appellees to maintain and use the outlet they then had, or any outlet, so long as they permitted appellants to drain into appellees’ tile; that thereupon, in 1893, appellants agreed to furnish a better outlet for complete drainage across a tract of land west of and adjoining
Upon a trial the jury returned a verdict for appellees, and answered interrogatories to the effect that in 1893 appellants, pursuant to permission given by appellees, laid a few rods of tile on their land east of appellees’ land, connecting with appellees’ lines of tile; that one Miller had given appellees an outlet across his land, but, upon learning that appellants had connected their tile, forbid any further use of the outlet for the use of both appellants and appellees; that the land adjacent to appellees’ land on the west was then purchased by one of the appellants; that appellants then notified appellees they would be furnished a better outlet across the land west if Miller persisted in his refusal to allow an outlet for the use of both appellees and
The first and third errors assigned question the sufficiency of appellees’ cross-complaint, but the record shows that before the* verdict was returned the cross-complaint was withdrawn.
Judgment affirmed.