Covington v. Cassidy Bayou Drainage Dist.

Etheidg®, J.

(dissenting).

I am unable to agree with the views expressed by Judge ANDebsoN. I do not understand the facts, in all respects, as he does, and it will be necessary to write a statement of the controlling facts as I get them from the record, although we do not radically differ in the main.

In 1914 Cassidy Bayou drainage district, appellee herein, was organized under the provision of chapter 195, Laws of 1912, as amended by the Laws of 1914, chapter 269. Among the plans for the protection of the territory embraced in the drainage district was the construction of a dam across Cassidy…