Keystone Drainage District v. Drainage District No. 16
Supreme Court of Arkansas
Appeal from Mississippi Circuit Court; J. F. Oautney, Judge; STATEMENT BY THE COURT. A petition was filed in the Mississippi circuit court for the Chiekasawba District for the organization .of a drainage district, to be designated as the Keystone Drainage District, embracing something more than 237,000 .acres of land in Mississippi, Craighead and Poinsett counties.
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Appeal from Mississippi Circuit Court; J. F. Oautney, Judge; STATEMENT BY THE COURT. A petition was filed in the Mississippi circuit court for the Chiekasawba District for the organization .of a drainage district, to be designated as the Keystone Drainage District, embracing something more than 237,000 .acres of land in Mississippi, Craighead and Poinsett counties. The petition was filed under the general laws as contained in the act of May 27, 1909, as amended by the acts of April 28, 1911, and March 13, 1913. The petitioners executed a bond, an engineer was appointed to make the preliminary…
1Opinion of the Court
Wood, J.,
(after stating the facts). The only question presented by the appeal is whether or not the trial court erred in excluding the lands embraced in Drainage District No. 16 from the petition for the establishment of Keystone Drainage District, .and in establishing the latter ■district with those lands excluded.(1) The statute under which the commissioners of Drainage District No. 16 were .appointed conferred no power upon those commissioners to remonstrate against the formation of Keystone Drainage District, although it was proposed by the commissioners for that district to include the…
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