Garvin Soil Conservation District v. Davis

BLACKBIRD, Chief Justice.

This is an action instituted by defendants in error, hereinafter referred to as “plaintiffs”, or by individual name, against plaintiffs in error, hereinafter referred to as “defendants”, to recover damages on account of alleged injuries to real estate, often rtferred to at the trial as the “Davis land”, caused by the impounding upon it of water behind an earthen dam defendants had caused to be built across Little Peavine Creek on nearby land in a soil conservation and flood prevention project in the Garvin County watershed of the Washita River.

In all, the Davis land…