Farelly Lake Levee District v. McGeorge

Appellant district was created as a local improvement district for the purpose of constructing through Jefferson and Arkansas counties a levee along the bank of the Arkansas River, and also to construct necessary ditches, spillways and floodgates. It was deemed necessary to construct two floodgates, one across the mouth of the stream known as Little Bayou Meto. The levee had been built across the mouth of the bayou, and it was considered necessary to put in the floodgate so that the water would be prevented from flowing into the bayou from the Arkansas River in times of overflow and to permit…