Kreitzer v. Barnes

This is an appeal by W.A. Kreitzer and a number of other land owners in the Blackford Slough Drainage District from an order of the county court of Champaign county denying their petition to abandon the work and abolish the district.

The Blackford Slough Drainage District was organized by an order of the county court of Champaign county entered March 9, 1925. The district as originally organized contained about 900 acres of land in Champaign and Ford counties. On April 20, 1925, over 1800 acres of land were added to the district by order of the county court of Champaign county and thereafter…