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Try CasePortal for FreeJ. McFadden finds that the trial court improperly awarded $130,000 in damages to the landowners in a negligence and trespass action against the county alleging that the county's streets and storm water system cause excessive amounts of storm water to collect and discharge through a pipe onto their property. The trial court incorrectly awarded the landowners attorney fees as well as damages for harm incurred after the landowners' presentation of their ante litem notice. The trial court also improperly found the county liable for damages under the landowners' theory of adverse possession because the landowners failed to show that the county obtained a prescriptive easement in the pipe. However, the trial court properly granted an injunction enjoining the county from maintaining a defective storm water drainage system that causes damage to the landowners' property. Reversed in part.