Watson v. Harris

Appellee instituted this suit in the lower court asking recovery against appellants in the sum of $12,000 for damage alleged to have been caused to her 120-acre farm by the building of a new “set-back” levee which the federal government constructed for White River Levee Distinct of Woodruff, Prairie and Monroe counties, of which district appellants were directors. While the United States G-overnment paid the actual construction cost of the new levee the district agreed with the government that it would pay the cost of the right-of-way and any other damages caused to landowners by reason of…