Wetaug Drainage District v. Illinois Central Railroad

Mr. ChiEE Justice Cartwright

delivered the opinion of the court:

On August 19, 1918, the county court of Pulaski county entered an order declaring a body of lands in Pulaski, Alexander and Union counties organized as a drainage district under the Levee act by the name of Wetaug Drainage District, appointed C. E. Keller, E. C. Mowery and J. E. Gleason commissioners of the district and continued the cause for further hearing until September 30, 1918. On March 19, 1919, a petition was filed for the annexation to the district of a considerable area of lands, in which the petitioners recited that…