Board of Directors v. Bodkin Bros.
Tennessee Supreme Court
FROM SHELBY. Appeal in error from Circuit Court of Shelby County. L. H. Estes, J.
1Opinion of the CourtMcAlister, J.
Plaintiffs below recovered a verdict and judgment against the Board of Directors of St. Francis Levee District for the sum of §8,380.56, damages for breach of a contract. The Board appealed and has assigned errors.
St. Francis Levee District is a public corporation, created by an Act of the Legislature of the State of Arkansas. The Act provides that a certain part of the St. Francis basin, which is particularly described, and containing all that area which has at any time, either directly or indirectly, been overflowed by water from the Mississippi River, shall constitute a .levee district.…
2Cases cited6 opinions
- US Bank v. PLANTERS'BANKSupreme Court of the United States · 1824
- Carson v. St. Francis Levee DistrictSupreme Court of Arkansas · 1894
- Pack, Woods & Co. v. Township of GreenbushMichigan Supreme Court · 1886
- Lowe v. Board of CommissionersIndiana Supreme Court · 1884
- State ex rel. Board of Education v. TiedemannSupreme Court of Missouri · 1879
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3Cited by25 opinions
- County of Shelby v. City of MemphisTennessee Supreme Court · 1963
- Mayor of Nashville v. WebbTennessee Supreme Court · 1904
- Cecil v. City of High PointSupreme Court of North Carolina · 1914
- Curtis v. GarrisonTennessee Supreme Court · 1963
- Chambers v. Sanford and TreadwayTennessee Supreme Court · 1926
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