Yazoo & M. v. R. v. Board of Mississippi Levee Com'rs

This is an action by the appellant to recover from the appellee taxes paid by it to the appellee under protest. A jury was waived and the case was tried by the judge, who, after hearing the evidence, rendered a judgment denying appellant a recovery. The case made by the record is as follows: The counties and parts of counties in this state lying in the Mississippi Eiver valley, the lands of which would be subject to inundation from overflow waters of the river, are divided into two districts created for the purpose of constructing, repairing, and maintaining levees along the Mississippi River…