Board of Levee Commissioners v. Harkleroads
Mississippi Supreme Court
Appeal from the Chancery Court of He Soto County. Hon. J. Gf. Hall, Chancellor. Under “ An act to incorporate the Board of Levee Commissioners for the Yazoo-Mississippi Delta, and for other purposes ” (Acts of 1884, 140), T. W. White, the president of the board thus created, and H. S. Harkleroads, the owner of a plantation lying within such levee district, and embracing about three sections of land, jointly applied to the Clerk of the Chancery Court of De Soto County, on the…
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Appeal from the Chancery Court of He Soto County. Hon. J. Gf. Hall, Chancellor. Under “ An act to incorporate the Board of Levee Commissioners for the Yazoo-Mississippi Delta, and for other purposes ” (Acts of 1884, 140), T. W. White, the president of the board thus created, and H. S. Harkleroads, the owner of a plantation lying within such levee district, and embracing about three sections of land, jointly applied to the Clerk of the Chancery Court of De Soto County, on the 12th of November, 1884, for the appointment of three commissioners, as provided in that act, to determine the amount of…
1Opinion of the CourtCooper, C. J.
This cause is properly here by appeal. The legislature, by granting an appeal from the decision of the commissioners to the chancery court, from which court appeals may be taken from all final decrees, indicated, as we think, an intention to confer the right of appeal to the losing party, just as it is given to other litigants in that court. 0
By the third section of the act creating the board of levee commissioners power is conferred upon it to exercise the right of eminent domain for the acquisition of such lands as may be necessary for the construction of the system of levees provided for,…
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