City of Hardin v. Norborne Land Drainage District

The plaintiff city of Hardin and a large number of landowners appeal from a judgment of the Ray county circuit court denying their petition to enjoin the defendant-respondent Norborne-Land Drainage District of Carroll county, its supervisors and contractor, from constructing and maintaining what we shall call for convenience a “new levee of greater height alongside an existing levee in the district. Respondents say it is merely an extension of the original levee. Appellants assert the new. levee would block the natural drainage of overflow water and cause it to inundate their publicly and…