Beck v. State Ex Rel. Attorney General

Suit was filed by the Attorney General, on the relation of the State, against J. O. E. Beck and other riparian owners of lands adjacent to Horseshoe Lake, in Crittenden County, Arkansas, in which it was alleged that the defendant landowners had constructed a ditch from a bayou, referred to interchangeably 'as Jennings or Berlin Bayou, to Fish- Bayou, which was carrying and would reduce the water of Horseshoe Lake to such a level that the navigation of the lake and its fishing and hunting value would be interfered with and greatly diminished. Certain fishing and hunting clubs intervened, and…