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YALOBUSHA COUNTY v. CRAWFORD

No. 11977.

165 F.2d 867 (1947)

YALOBUSHA COUNTY v. CRAWFORD et al.

Circuit Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

Rehearing Denied January 21, 1948.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

H. H. Creekmore, Rufus Creekmore and Wade H. Creekmore, all of Jackson, Miss., Cowles Horton, of Grenada, Miss., and W. I. Stone, of Coffeyville, Miss., for appellant.

A. Devitt Vanech, Asst. Atty. Gen., Chester L. Summers, U. S. Atty., of Oxford, Miss., and Roger P. Marquis and Fred W. Smith, both of Washington, D. C., for appellees.

Before HUTCHESON, McCORD, and WALLER, Circuit Judges.

WALLER, Circuit Judge.

Fifty-nine thousand acres of land in Yalobusha County, Mississippi, including certain roads and highways belonging to the County, were within the area of two proposed reservoirs, known as the New Grenada Reservoir and the Enid Reservoir, which the Mississippi River Commission was preparing to construct by the erection of dams across the Yocona and the Yalobusha Rivers. The projects were designed to aid in controlling floods of the Mississippi...

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