Purvis v. Mills County

PHILLIPS, Chief Justice.

These two cases have been consolidated on appeal as the facts are, for the most part, identical and they are governed by the same principles of law.

These suits were brought by the con-demnor, Mills County, for the purpose of taking a flood control easement over fifteen acres of Appellants’ land, which easement is to be a part of a flood control system to-be constructed on the Blanket Creek watershed pursuant to an agreement between the-United States Government and the Brown-Mills County Soil Conservation District.

The decision of the three special commissioners…