Yonts v. Public Service Co. of Arkansas

The Public Service Company of Arkansas filed suit against Mrs. Victoria Yonts and another suit against Mrs. Ethel Bentley, for the purpose of condemning land of the appellants for use as a dam-site and reservoir to he constructed by appellee. The cases were consolidated and tried as one case in the circuit court.

The appellee had an ordinance authorizing it to construct a system of waterworks in the town of Boone-ville. The appellants owned land situated at the neck or mouth of a deep gorge, through which a creek ran. A dam was to be built at tbe neck of the gorge. The defendants’ lands…