Printable Format24-106.
History: L. 1911, ch. 175, § 2; L. 1917, ch. 176, § 2; R.S. 1923, 24-106; L. 2011, ch. 49, § 14; Repealed, L. 2013, ch. 111, § 10; July 1.
Law Review and Bar Journal References:
Section has never been interpreted as to drainage of water from leveled lands, Jerry L. Bean, 19 K.L.R. 597, 602 (1971).
"Too Much of a Good Thing: Kansas Law on Unwanted Water," Robert W. Coykendall, 66 J.K.B.A. No. 7, 24 (1997).
"Flooding of Private Property by the Construction of a Public Improvement: Isn't It Time for Kansas to Call It What It Really Is--A Compensable Taking?" Nicole M. Zomberg, 38 W.L.J. 209 (1998).
CASE ANNOTATIONS
1. Watercourse as used herein, defined; previously accepted meaning adopted. Wood v. Brown, 98 Kan. 597, 598, 159 P. 396.
2. Depression in land not necessarily a natural watercourse hereunder. Evans v. Diehl, 102 Kan. 728, 730, 732, 172 P. 17.
3. Right concerning flood waters not changed, unless somewhat enlarged, hereby. Thompson v. McDougal, 103 Kan. 373, 376, 377, 175 P. 157.
4. Section embodies civil-law rule; held constitutional. Skinner v. Wolf, 126 Kan. 158, 266 P. 926.
5. Rights as to correction of natural watercourse considered. Gentry v. Weaver, 130 Kan. 691, 696, 288 P. 745.
6. Petition in action to enjoin wrongful drainage considered and held sufficient. Goering v. Schrag, 167 Kan. 499, 500, 501, 207 P.2d 391.
7. Section authorizes ditch to stream in course of natural drainage. Horn v. Seeger, 167 Kan. 532, 544, 207 P.2d 953.
8. Cited; drainage system construction held exercise of city's governmental functions. Perry v. City of Wichita, 174 Kan. 264, 270, 255 P.2d 667.
9. Cited; denial of injunction to enjoin upper landowners from removing water by pumps and open ditches examined. DeWerff v. Schartz, 12 Kan. App. 2d 553, 556, 751 P.2d 1047 (1988).