Ham v. Board of Levee Commissioners
Mississippi Supreme Court
From tbe chancery court of, second district, Coahoma county. How. Carey 0. Moody, Chancellor. Ham, and others, appellants and cross-appellees,- were complainants in the court below; the board of levee commissioners, appellee and cross-appellant, was defendant there. From a decree partly and largely in defendant’s favor, the complainants appealed to the supreme court, and the defendant prosecuted a cross-appeal. The facts are fully stated in the opinion of the court.
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From tbe chancery court of, second district, Coahoma county. How. Carey 0. Moody, Chancellor. Ham, and others, appellants and cross-appellees,- were complainants in the court below; the board of levee commissioners, appellee and cross-appellant, was defendant there. From a decree partly and largely in defendant’s favor, the complainants appealed to the supreme court, and the defendant prosecuted a cross-appeal. The facts are fully stated in the opinion of the court. The fundamental law of our state, sec. 17 of the constitution of 1890, provides that private property shall not be taken or…
1Opinion of the CourtTb'oxy, J.
The Yazoo-Mississippi Delta levee district comprises all of the northern counties of the state which are subject; to overflow from the Mississippi river. At the date of the filing of this bill appellee levee board maintained three distinct lines of levees: One beginning at the foothills near the northern boundary of the state, and extending southward along or near the bank of the Mississippi river; terminating near the bank of the river, about ninety and one-half miles from the upper terminus, about one mile below Rescue Landing, in Coahoma county, and near the edge of the basin known as…
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