Legal Opinion
C. S. Lenoir v. Porters Creek Watershed District
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Decided November 21, 1978No. 76-1640PublishedCited by 55 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ENGEL, Circuit Judge.
C. S. Lenoir appeals from a final judgment dismissing his civil action for flood damages to his lands located in Hardeman County, Tennessee.
Porters Creek is a small tributary of the Hatchie River which in turn joins the Mississippi River just north of Memphis, Tennessee. In 1959 the Soil Conservation Service of the United States Department of Agriculture, in cooperation with certain local agencies, promulgated a watershed plan pursuant to the federal Watershed Protection and Flood Prevention Act, ch. 656, 68 Stat. 666 (1954), as amended, 16 U.S.C. §§ 1001-1009 (1976). The…
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