Toler v. Bear Creek Drainage Dist.

This is an appeal from a decree of the court below making permanent a temporary organization of the Bear creek drainage district over the protest of the appellants, who own land in the district. The district embraces something over one hundred thirty-five thousand acres of land in the counties of Leflore, Sunflower, and Humphreys. It is bounded on the east by the Yazoo river, and partly by Roebuck Lake on the northeast. Roebuck Lake connects with the Yazoo river, but whether it is tributary thereto or is an outlet for flood waters thereof does not appear, and whether it is the one or the…