Section 51-9-8. Interference with underground streams
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- The course of a stream of water underground and its exact condition before its first use are so difficult of ascertainment that trespass may not be brought for any supposed interference with the rights of a proprietor.
Orig. Code 1863, § 2961; Code 1868, § 2968; Code 1873, § 3019; Code 1882, § 3019; Civil Code 1895, § 3880; Civil Code 1910, § 4476; Code 1933, § 105-1408.