In re Amundson
Supreme Court of Minnesota
From an order of the county board of Clay county directing the repair of County Ditcb No. '18, G. A. Amundson and other landowners appealed to the district court for that county. The appeal was heard by Johnson, J., who made findings and ordered judgment in favor of appellants. From the order denying respondents’ motion for amended findings or for a new trial, the county of Clay and the drainage district known as County Ditch No. 18 appealed.
1Opinion of the Court
Taylor, 0.
County Ditch No. 18 in the county of Clay was established in 1907. The upper part of the ditch passes through a number of sloughs and a shallow lake, but, as originally constructed, was not as deep as the sloughs or the lake, and did not extend through the lake 'bed. Some of the landowners seem to have cut trenches through the outer edge of the lake bed, for the purpose of permitting the water from the lake to enter the ditch, but, as the bottom of the ditch was above the bottom *424of muck of the lake bed, tbe lake was drained only to a limited extent.
In July, 1913, fire landowners,…
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