Hughes v. Hughes

The appellee, William T. Hughes, petitioned the Clinton Circuit Court for the establishment and construction of a public ditch. The petition therefor is in proper form, and shows the petitioner to be the owner of certain lands therein described, and the defendants to said proceeding to be the owners of certain other specified lands, which, -it is claimed, would be beneficially affected by locating and constructing the ditch prayed for upon a route designated in said petition.

Upon the filing of the report of the- commissioners of drainage, the appellants and others remonstrated. This *475report…