Indian Creek Drainage Dist. No. 1 v. Garrott
Mississippi Supreme Court
Appeal from the chancery court of Quitman county. Hon. J. G. McGowan, Chancellor. Suit for injunction by T. M. Garrott and others against the Indian Creek Drainage District No. 1 of Q,uitman, Tunica, and Panola Counties' and others. From a decree overruling the motion to dissolve a temporary injunction theretofore granted, defendants appeal.
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Appeal from the chancery court of Quitman county. Hon. J. G. McGowan, Chancellor. Suit for injunction by T. M. Garrott and others against the Indian Creek Drainage District No. 1 of Q,uitman, Tunica, and Panola Counties' and others. From a decree overruling the motion to dissolve a temporary injunction theretofore granted, defendants appeal. This is an appeal from a deoree of the chancery court of Quitman county', Miss., overruling’ a motion to dissolve a temporary injunction theretofore granted the appellees, restraining and enjoining the appellants from repairing and extending a certain…
1Opinion of the CourtHolden, J.
The gist of the complaint of the landowners between the levee and the river and west of the river is: First, that the commissioners of the levee district have no right to levee against vagrant flood waters which have left the channel of Coldwater river and spread over the adjacent lands of the valley, thereby causing irreparable injury by diverting the water upon their lands; second, that if the levee commissioners have such right, then in exercising it they have no authority to obstruct the outlets or natural water courses connecting with the river through which its flood waters pass and…
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