Affirmed in part and reversed in part.
JUSTICE HOWERTON delivered the opinion of the court:
In the beginning, there was one owner of one tract of land and there was a lake and a pond upon the land.
Part of the land was low and marshy and so the owner put a drain pipe in the earth between the lake and pond. Time passed, and the pipe became clogged with roots and silt, and the drain slowed to a trickle.
Then the land was divided into two tracts...
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