Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Co. v. Drainage District No. 1

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Dawson, J.:

These are consolidated appeals from judgments of the district court of Lyon county wherein the appellant railway companies were denied injunctions to restrain the collection of certain taxes imposed on their property by the defendant drainage district and denied recovery of certain taxes paid by them under protest.

The litigation grows out of certain proceedings heretofore undertaken to create a drainage district in Lyon county. The purposes for which the district was organized were found to be impracticable and the project was abandoned, but…