Ex parte Drainage Commissioners

Citations

• 100 Miss. 821
• 57 So. 223

Syllabus

<p>Drainage. National watercourses. Contribution.</p> <p>Where the statute under which two drainage districts were organized “Confer no power upon the commissioners to deal with natural watercourses, hut are designed solely for the purpose of creating artificial channels for the drainage of wet, swamp and overflow lands,” the drainage commissioners of one district have no power to contribute to the expense incurred by another district in cleaning, straightening and deepening a natural watercourse _ which constitutes the outlet for the waters of the two drainage districts.</p>