Green v. Board of Com'rs

Plaintiffs were the owners of a tract of land measuring 3.60 superficial acres, assessed in 1921 at $1,080 for the land alone, exclusive of the improvements. On April 29, 1922, the Mississippi river burst through its embankments, and thereafter the defendant built a new levee, taking for that purpose a total of 1.53 acres of said land, including the land occupied by the new levee itself, and also that thrown outside of said levee and thus into the bed of the river, but exclusive of the land (0.17 acres, outside of the levee) already washed away by the flood.

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