WAGGENER v. LEGGETT

No. 42619.

246 Miss. 505 (1963)

150 So.2d 529

WAGGENER, et al. v. LEGGETT, et al.

Supreme Court of Mississippi.

March 11, 1963.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Morse & Morse, Gulfport; W.J. Blass, Wiggins, for appellants.

Mize, Thompson & Mize, Eaton, Cottrell, Galloway & Long, Gulfport, for appellees.


ETHRIDGE, J.

This case involves an inquiry into the measure of damages to the owner of land bordering on a bayou, where defendant dredging soil from its bottom removed the support for plaintiff's shoreline and caused part of it to cave in. We hold the before-and-after rule is applicable and was applied correctly by the trial court.

Charles A. Waggener and wife, Lucile Waggener, brought this suit in the Circuit Court...

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