Gilmore-Puckett Lbr. Co. v. Big Brown's Creek Drainage Dist. No. 2

Appellee was duly organized as a two-county drainage district in the year 1918 pursuant to the provisions of Chapter 269, Laws of Mississippi of 1914. In the years 1919 and 1920 the proposed improvements were made, an assessment of benefits against the lands in the district was made in the amount of approximately $43,000, all funds raised by this assessment were expended and the assessment of benefits was exhausted in 1920. Since then there has been no further assessment of benefits against any of the lands in the district.

In 1947 some informal meetings of persons owning lands within the…