Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway Co. v. Monona County

The plaintiff’s line of railway crosses tbe drainage district and intersects therein twenty-five different forty-acre tracts. The commissioners appointed *173for that purpose assessed the benefit of the drainage system to said railroad at $182.47, distributing the same upon the road in the several forty-acre tracts in sums varying from fifty-five cents to $19.50, according to the classification adopted by said commissioners. At the hearing before the board of supervisors upon the commissioners’ report, the railway company appeared by counsel,, and objected to the assessments made upon its…