Peart v. Meeker

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Fenner, J.

This is a suit to recover damages resulting to plaintiff from the act of the defendant corporation in locating and constructing a line of levee on R.ed river in such manner as to leave her property outside of the levee, exposed to overflow and rendered unfit for cultivation by reason not only of such exposure but also by the consequent obstruction of her drainage.

She alleges that the levee might have been otherwise located with equal protection to the public safety, without the sacrifice of her property, along a different line which she…