Buchanan v. Red Banks Creek Drainage District

The Bed Banks Creek Drainage District was organized in 1926 under the statutes mentioned in the majority opinion herein. Soon thereafter the landowners in the district were assessed with total benefits amounting to the sum of $93,516.75. The appellant, George M. Buchanan, then owned, and still owns, 360 acres of land in the district, and 312 acres thereof were then designated ‘ ‘ overflowed lands ’ ’, and the assessment of benefits originally made against his lands was the sum of $9,360, being approximately one-tenth of the total benefits assessed on all of the lands of the district. He had…