White River Levee District v. Beeman

This suit was brought by the appellee, Burl Beeman, to recover damages for injuries inflicted upon his land by the appellant, White River Levee District. It is the plaintiff’s theory that the District wrongfully removed an old levee and thereby exposed the plaintiff’s land to overflow from the White River. The District contends that under our decisions the landowner cannot recover for the withdrawal of levee protection and that in any event Beeman accepted a payment of $400 in 1946 as a settlement of all his claims for damages. The trial judge allowed the case to go to the jury, which…