Westerhold v. Hale

Mr. Chiee Justice Murphy

delivered the opinion of the court:

Wood River Drainage and Levee District is a corporation organized several years ago under the Levee Act. (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1945, chap. 42, par. 1 et seq.) Its territorial area is located along the Illinois bank of the Mississippi river south of Alton. A stream known as Wood river flows across it in a southwesterly direction and has its outlet in the Mississippi. A comparatively small stream, known as Indian creek, parallels the bluffs east of the district and flows in a southerly direction into Cahokia creek. A channel known as Cahokia…