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BROWN v. PEARL RIVER VALLEY WATER SUPPLY DISTRICT

No. 18626.

292 F.2d 395 (1961)

Floyd T. BROWN and J. Leland Brown, d/b/a Floyd T. Brown & Son, Appellants, v. PEARL RIVER VALLEY WATER SUPPLY DISTRICT, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit.

June 30, 1961.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William L. Higgs, Jackson, Miss., Abram J. Chayes, Cambridge, Mass., of counsel, for appellants.

Clifford C. Chittim, H. V. Watkins, Jackson, Miss., Watkins, Pyle, Edwards & Ludlam, Jackson, Miss., of counsel, for appellee.

Before JONES and BROWN, Circuit Judges, and CARSWELL, District Judge.

JONES, Circuit Judge.

The Mississippi Legislature passed a statute1 in 1958 known as the Pearl River Valley Water Supply District Act which authorized the creation of the appellee District. The Act provided that the Pearl River Industrial Commission should petition the chancery court of Hinds County, Mississippi, to organize and establish the District. The Act required that the Board of Water Commissioners, each county in the proposed...

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