Mengel Box Co. v. Fowlkes

The bill of complaint was filed by the Mengel Box Company to. enjoin action under what is claimed to be a void act of the legislature (Private Acts 1915', chapter 186), which action, it is alleged, will be detrimental to its interests as a large landowner.

The legislature at its last session passed a bill creating the Dyer levee and drainage district for the purpose of authorizing the building of a levee and the draining, on the assessment plan, of a territory of about 200,000 acres lying along the Mississippi river, and extending from a point near Eeelfoot Lake down to the month of Obion…