Board of Levee Commissioners v. Lee

Citations

• 85 Miss. 508

Syllabus

<p>1. Eminent Domain. Levee damages.</p> <p>A judgment for damages for land taken and damaged for levee . purposes will not he disturbed on the ground that it is excessive, when a judgment for a much larger sum might have been given under the evidence.</p> <p>2. Same. Harmless error.</p> <p>The fact that one witness who testified favorably for the defendant whs incompetent affords no ground for setting aside a judgment awarding defendant a certain sum as damages on condemnation of his land for levee purposes, when the judgment is fully sustained by competent evidence.-</p> <p>3. Same. Evidence. Use to which land is applied. Steamboat landing.</p> <p>Evidence of the value of the land in question as a steamboat landing is competent in a proceeding to condemn land for levee purposes.</p>