Baker v. St. Francis Levee District

BILLINGS, Presiding Judge.

Plaintiffs have appealed from the order of the Circuit Court of Pemiscot County dismissing their petition for an alternative writ of mandamus to compel St. Francis Levee District to maintain certain culverts and install an additional culvert so that entrapped waters would drain. On motion of defendants, the trial court dismissed plaintiffs’ petition.

Defendants have filed a motion to dismiss the appeal, contending plaintiffs’ notice of appeal is fatally defective and an appeal will not lie from a circuit court’s refusal to issue an alternative writ of mandamus.

Plaintif…