Swett v. Mississippi State Highway Commission

GILLESPIE, Presiding Justice.

John L. Swett filed suit in the County Court of Warren County against Mississippi State Highway Commission and alleged that his lands had been damaged by the Highway Commission in violation of section 17 of the Constitution of the State of Mississippi. The declaration charged that Swett owned certain lands in section 17, north of U. S. Highway 80 in Warren County, through which flowed Clear Creek, and that the bed and banks of said creek through his property had been stabilized since 1938. He alleged that sometime before December 1958 the Highway Commission…