W. R. Wrape Stave Co. v. Arkansas State Game & Fish Commission

Griffin Smith, Chief Justice.

The State Game and Fish Commission sought by Circuit Court action to condemn lands in Faulkner County for a game and fish reserve, under authority of Amendment No. 35 to the Constitution. By construction of a dam across Palarm Creek a lake covering between six and seven thousand acres would be created at a maximum elevation of 261 feet above sea level. The creek, sluggish in dry weather, accounts for a swampy area not reasonably adaptable to agriculture, but yielding commercial timber, such as oak, pine, etc. In addition to the property to be inundated, a margin…