Beaver Bayou Drainage District v. Lee-Phillips Drainage District

This is a petition filed in the circuit court by the appellee, Lee-Phillips Drainage District, asking authority to levy an annual tax for the purpose of cleaning out, deepening, and widening the district’s drainage ditches. Ark. Stats. 1947, § 21-533. Included in the ditches to be rehabilitated is a portion of Lick Creek, which flows southward across the district’s southern boundary. The petition is resisted by Beaver Bayou Drainage District, which lies just south of the petitioning district, and by the other appellants, who own land within the petitioning district, near its southern…