Naylor v. Eagle

J. Seaborn Holt, Associate Justice.

This litigation involves alleged damages growing out of the existence of a dam and concrete spillway across the mouth of Fish-trap Slough, a short distance upstream from its juncture with Bayou Meto in Lonoke County. Appellant, Jack Naylor, as owner of a large tract of farm land some three miles upstream and north of the dam, within the watershed of Fishtrap Slough, [and the other appellants as his tenants] sued appellee, Eagle, for damages allegedly caused by overflow backwaters from said dam and asked for a mandatory injunction requiring appellee to remove…