Sny Island Levee Drainage District v. Boyd Levee & Drainage District

It embraces about 110,000 acres of land in Adams, Pike and Calhoun counties. It was organized for the purpose of protecting such lands from the overflow waters of the Mississippi river, and a levee was constructed along the east bank of said river from a point in the''south part of Adams county through Pike county and into Calhoun county, about fifty-two miles long. The main channel of the district was and is the Sny E’Carte, a stream which left the Mississippi river in Adams county and ran south through Pike county into Calhoun county, where it again entered the Mississippi river. When the…