Cherry v. Cousart Bayou Drainage District

Ed. F. McFaddin, Justice.

This appeal challenges an order of the Jefferson Circuit Court, which granted the directors of the Cousart Bayou Drainage District1 (sometime hereinafter called “Cousart”) the authority to purchase a dragline and equipment for said district under the provisions of § 21-575 Ark. Stats.

On May 29, 1953, a petition, signed by a majority of the landowners in Cousart, was filed in the Jefferson Circuit Court2 praying that the Directors of the District be empowered to purchase a dragline and equipment in order to clean and keep clean the drainage ditch of Cousart. That the…