Legal Opinion
Maurice Fox v. City of West Palm Beach
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided September 26, 1967No. 23947_1PublishedCited by 41 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
JONES, Circuit Judge:
The appellee, City of West Palm Beach, and the nearby Town of Palm Beach, Florida, had obtained their water supplies from a private utility company. This company, commencing in 1924, used a water catchment area in a marsh west of the City. In 1949 the company constructed earthen dikes on the northern, eastern and southern sides of the portions of the marsh which it owned, leaving the western side, about seven miles in length, open for the inflow of water. In 1954 the appellant, Maurice Fox, a resident of New Jersey, acquired a tract of land having an Eastern boundary 2%…
2Cases cited25 opinions
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