ST. LOUIS-SAN FRANCISCO RY. CO. v. BOARD OF DIRECTORS


2 F.Supp. 38 (1932)

ST. LOUIS-SAN FRANCISCO RY. CO. v. BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF ST. FRANCIS LEVEE DIST. MISSOURI PAC. R. CO. v. SAME. CHICAGO, R. I. & P. RY. v. SAME.

District Court, E. D. Arkansas, Jonesboro Division.

December 29, 1932.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thos. S. Buzbee, of Little Rock, Ark., for plaintiff Chicago, R. I. & P. Ry. Co.

Thos. B. Pryor, of Ft. Smith, Ark., H. G. Combs, of Little Rock, Ark., and C. E. Daggett, of Marianna, Ark., for plaintiff Missouri Pac. R. Co.

E. T. Miller, of St. Louis, Mo., and E. L. Westbrooke, Jr., and E. L. Westbrooke, both of Jonesboro, Ark. (R. E. Warden, of Little Rock, Ark., of counsel), for plaintiff St. Louis-San Francisco Ry. Co.


MARTINEAU, District Judge.

In 1893 (Acts Ark. 1893, No. 19, p. 24) the defendant, St. Francis levee district, hereinafter referred to as the levee district, was organized to build a levee from the Missouri state line to the mouth of the St. Francis river, a distance of a hundred and sixty-five miles, to protect the lands lying within the district from the overflow waters of the Mississippi river. This levee connected with one in Missouri built and to be built for...

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