Smith v. Arkansas Irrigation Company

This is an appeal from a judgment of condemnation affecting 120 acres of land to be used as a water basin by Arkansas Irrigation Company, operating in Prairie county. As counsel for appellants has expressed it, “The only question for consideration is the right to condemn.”

There is a' stipulation that value of the land is $4 per acre.

Act 87 of 1909 is entitled “An Act Granting the Right of Eminent Domain to Irrigation Corporations”. Pertinent parts of the statute are copied in the first footnote.

The lands sought to be condemned are contiguous to LaGrue Bayou, across which appellee proposes to…