Richardson v. Board of Levee Commissioners
Mississippi Supreme Court
From the circuit court of Issaquena county. IioN. George WiNstoN, Judge. By an act of the legislature, approved March 13, 1884, entitled, “ An act to amend an act to incorporate the board of levee commissioners for Bolivar, Washington, and Issaquena counties, and for other purposes, approved November 27, 1865, and to revise acts amendatory thereof,” the right was given to said boat’d of levee commissioners to appropriate any lands needed in the construction of levees in said…
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From the circuit court of Issaquena county. IioN. George WiNstoN, Judge. By an act of the legislature, approved March 13, 1884, entitled, “ An act to amend an act to incorporate the board of levee commissioners for Bolivar, Washington, and Issaquena counties, and for other purposes, approved November 27, 1865, and to revise acts amendatory thereof,” the right was given to said boat’d of levee commissioners to appropriate any lands needed in the construction of levees in said counties along the Mississippi river. The said act provides for the appointment of three disinterested freeholders of…
1Opinion of the CourtCampbell, J.
The points presented in this case are too numerous to make it desirable to discuss them seriatim, and since they may all be resolved *549by the application of a few principles applicable, we content ourselves with a statement of these principles, whereby to test the result reached.
The land-owner is not entitled to damages, because of a failure to so place levees as to protect his land from the water of the Mississippi, or because the levee may prevent such water from flowing off'as it otherwise Avould, and may deepen the water in an overflow on the land between the embankment and the river. These…
2Cases cited1 opinion
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