Hemphill v. Mississippi State Highway Commission

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• holding that executory-interest owners have “certain limited rights to enjoin the possessory owner from waste of the inheritance and to recover damages for injuries [that] . . . substantially [diminish] its value”
• finding that individuals who possessed a shifting executory interest in land taken and allegedly damaged by the Mississippi Highway Commission possessed limited compensable rights in the land

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).