Palmer and another v Bowman and another

Palmer and another v Bowman and another - 2000 - Weekly Law Reports [2000] 1 WLR 842-856(18) .

CA 14 January 1999. Plaintiff P and defendant B were neighbouring landowners. Naturally occurring water had previously drained from P's land to B's land via drainage ditches which belonged to B but had gradually disappeared over the previous 30 years. P claimed entitlement to easement of drainage. . P appealed against ruling that the easement had been extinguished by abandonment. B cross appealed on the grounds that B was not entitled to the easement. Appeal dismissed and cross appeal allowed. Held that right to drainage was not capable of being established as an easement.


NATURAL DRAINAGE
EASEMENT
PALMER V BOWMAN
DRAINAGE
DITCHES