Arkansas State Game & Fish Commission v. W. R. Wrape Stave Co.

LEMLEY, District Judge.

This is an action instituted by the Arkansas State Game and Fish Commission in the Circuit Court of Faulkner County, Arkansas, to condemn sixty separate parcels of land in that county, containing approximately 7,000 acres, for, as stated in the petition, “a public purpose, to-wit: the erection and maintenance of a dam and lake for the purpose of propagation and conservation of the State’s fish and game.” After service was had upon the defendants in the state court, the defendant Dierks Lumber and Coal Company,' a Delaware corporation, filed its petition for removal of…