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HAMPTON v. ARKANSAS STATE GAME & FISH COMMISSION

No. 4-9409.

238 S.W.2d 950 (1951)

HAMPTON et al. v. ARKANSAS STATE GAME & FISH COMMISSION.

Supreme Court of Arkansas.

Rehearing Denied May 21, 1951.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Gene Bairn, Pine Bluff, George E. Pike, DeWitt, A. F. Triplett, Hendrix Rowell, Lawrence Blackwell and Coleman, Gantt & Ramsay, all of Pine Bluff, for appellant.

Ed E. Ashbaugh, Little Rock, Joseph Morrison, Stuttgart, amicus curiae, for appellee.

McFADDIN, Justice.

This appeal presents the question, whether the Arkansas State Game and Fish Commission is authorized to exercise the power of eminent domain to acquire lands on which to establish a public duck hunting project.

Appellee, Arkansas State Game and Fish Commission (hereinafter called "Commission") filed complaint in the Circuit Court naming a number of parties as defendants, and seeking to acquire by eminent domain all of the defendants' rights...

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