Jensen v. County Board

Taylor, O.

Swan Lake in Nicollet county is an irregular shaped meandered lake having an area of nearly 11,000 acres. On April 12, 1917, a petition for the construction of a county ditch, signed by J. A. Jensen and a large number of other landowners, was filed in the office of the county auditor of Nicollet county. The petition states, among other things, that Swan Lake has become normally shallow, grassy and of a marshy character and is no longer of a sufficient depth or volume to be of any substantial use; that during dry seasons it is practically dry and grows up to noxious weeds and grasses…