Meriwether Sand & Gravel Co. v. State Ex Rel. Attorney General

The appellant, some years ago, secured leases on lands underlaid with gravel situated about four or four and a half miles from Bodcaw creek in Lafayette County, Arkansas. The water’s from the said lands, in their natural flow by means of depressions, sloughs and branches, entered said creek at a point above the lands of the appellees, F. M. Shewmake and E. D. Brown. The appellant erected on its leasehold equipment for the mining of the gravel and for washing a part of it so as to separate the sand and other foreign matter therein from the gravel. The gravel mined was sold by the appellant to.…