Sherwood v. Pearl River Valley Water Supply District

NIXON, District Judge.

Plaintiff William H. Sherwood is administrator of the estate of Floyd T. Brown. In this action he attacks the validity of a state court judgment which upholds the taking of Floyd T. Brown’s property by the Pearl River Water Supply District.

The plaintiff’s basic contention is that Floyd T. Brown was non compos mentis at the time of the state court proceedings in which the validity of the taking of Mr. Brown’s property was adjudged; and therefore that such proceedings denied Mr. Brown due process as guaranteed by the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments.

The Water Supply…