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EXCHANGE TRUST CO. v. DRAINAGE DIST.

No. 114.

278 U.S. 421 (1929)

EXCHANGE TRUST COMPANY v. DRAINAGE DISTRICT NO. 7, POINSETT COUNTY, ARKANSAS, ET AL.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided January 21, 1929.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Messrs. Arthur L. Adams and J.A. Tellier, with whom Messrs. D.F. Taylor, John S. Mosby, and H.M. Cooley were on the brief, for plaintiff in error.

Mr. R.B. McCulloch with whom Mr. Burk Mann was on the brief, for St. Francis Levee District.

Mr. Charles D. Frierson appeared and was on the brief for Drainage District No. 7.

MR. CHIEF JUSTICE TAFT delivered the opinion of the Court.

Roy Rice and others were homesteaders under the United States statutes upon lands of the Government situate in Poinsett County, Arkansas. The lands were in Drainage District No. 7 of Poinsett County. Drainage District No. 7 had been organized under a special act of the Legislature of Arkansas. Arkansas Acts of 1917, p. 1053. As originally formed, the district consisted...

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