Board of Levee Commissioners v. Dillard
Mississippi Supreme Court
From the circuit court, first district, of Coahoma county. . Hon. T. A. Montgomery, Judge. •The opinion states the case. The brief of Ooojper Waddell, for appellant, is not in the record, and cannot be found by the reporter. 1. I do not understand that a rule has ever been applied in proceedings of this kind different from that applied in ordinary-cases.
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From the circuit court, first district, of Coahoma county. . Hon. T. A. Montgomery, Judge. •The opinion states the case. The brief of Ooojper Waddell, for appellant, is not in the record, and cannot be found by the reporter. 1. I do not understand that a rule has ever been applied in proceedings of this kind different from that applied in ordinary-cases. It is new doctrine to say that jurors are rendered incompetent by the fact that they had officiated in other trials involving like issues. 6 Am. & Eng. Ene. L., (1st ed.), and notes. There is respectable authority for the position that jurors…
1Opinion of the CourtTerral, J.
On the second of November, 1897, the board of levee commissioners for the Yazoo-Mississippi Delta, holding the power of eminent domain, applied, by petition to the clerk of the circuit court of Coahoma county, to have the appraisers, appointed to assess levee damages, to be required to view, ascertain and determine the value of certain lands in sections 25 and 36 of township 30, range 4 west, and in sections 30 and 31 of township 30, range 3 west, minutely and specifically described in their petition in that behalf, aggregating thirty-four acres of *646land, lying in said county, and belonging to…
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