Attala County v. Woodfin

The appellant, Mrs. M. F. Woodfin, instituted this suit against Attala county seeking to recover certain damages alleged to have been sustained as a result of the widening, of a public road which runs along the side of a forty-acre tract of land owned by her; the damages claimed being caused by the alleged illegal taking of a strip across this forty acres and the destruction of a fence standing thereon, and erosion resulting in the destruction of an embankment that had been constructed on this strip- of land to obstruct the flow of water across her land. There was a verdict and judgment in…