Board of Levee Com'rs v. Mangum

A judgment was rendered in the court below against the appellant, board of levee commissioners for the Yazoo-Mississippi Delta, in favor of the appellee, E. P.: Mangum, for damages to the latter’s land in the sum of one thousand five hundred dollars; and appellant, the board of levee commissioners for the Yazoo-Mississippi Delta, prosecutes an appeal here.

The declaration of the appellee is in two counts, the first charging negligence on the part of the officers and agents of the levee board, and the second, alleging, in substance, that the levee board, the appellant, had damaged his land…