White v. Lake Cormorant Drainage Dist.

This is an appeal by W. O. White and thirteen others, landowners in the Lake Cormorant drainage district, from a decree of the chancery court of De Soto county approving a second assessment of benefits to the lands constituting said district. Appellants E. T. Woolfolk, Mrs. O. T. Knight, J. W. Barbee, Sr., and the D. S. Richmond heirs protested against said new assessment. There was a hearing by the court and decree rendered approving the assessment except as to Mrs. C. T. Knight, J. W. Barbee, Sr., and the heirs of D. S. Richmond, whose assessments were left as they stood on the first…