Gulf, Mobile & Ohio R. R. v. Tallahatchie Drainage Dist.

This is an appeal from a decree of the Chancery Court of Union County which disallowed the claim of the appellant, Gulf, Mobile & Ohio Eailroad Company, for $8,262.00 as damages on account of the cost of reconstructing its railroad bridge across a drainage canal which was being broadened and deepened by the appellee drainage district, and which decree confirmed and approved an assessment of $200.00 against the railroad company for its part of the cost of re-establishing the drainage system of the district on which there had been no maintenance work since shortly after the district was…