Opinion ID: 97949
Heading Depth: 1
Heading Rank: 1

Heading: timberlake plantation.

Text: Prior to the construction of the Huntington Short Line levee by the United States the waters of the Mississippi River did not overflow and submerge the Timberlake plantation hereinafter described at such frequent intervals and for such duration as to disturb the claimant in the profitable use, enjoyment, and possession thereof or so as to materially affect its cultivation, productive capacity, or market value. It was then suitable for the purpose of raising thereon, and there was profitably raised thereon, crops of cotton, cotton seed, corn, hay, and other products. Since the completion of said Huntington Short Line levee by the United States, placing the plantation of claimant between the old and new levee, in the restricted and narrower high-water channel of the river, the rises in the water of said river, by reason of the water being thus confined and restricted in its flow, have been, and are now, occurring at such frequent intervals and for such duration as to prevent the claimant from raising any kind of a crop thereon; the buildings have become untenantable and uninhabitable; the fencing washed away; the land covered with superinduced additions of water, earth, sand, and gravel to a depth of from 3 to 12 feet; said land has since grown up in willows, cottonwood, underbrush, and weeds so as to render it valueless to her; to destroy its market value; and to compel its abandonment.