Nahay v. Arkansas Irrigation Company

Grifrin Smith, Chief Justice.

Because lands designated in the complaint would be overflowed by a dam it had constructed across Bayou La Grue, Arkansas Irrigation Company sought to condemn. Separate suits were consolidated when answers and cross complaints were filed.- Prairie County Irrigation Company intervened, asserting it had previously acquired easements in respect of the property involved.

The Chancellor found (a) that Arkansas Irrigation Company, a corporation, had power of eminent domain; (b) under the Company’s prospectus waters would be impounded in the bayou to a maximum depth of 207…