Graves Motor Co. v. Commissioners of the Green River Special Drainage District

This is an appeal from the circuit court of Henry County, wherein the plaintiff filed a complaint in equity to enjoin the commissioners of the Green River Special Drainage District (herein called defendants) from levying any drainage assessment against certain of its land.

As a basis for the complaint, the plaintiff alleged that when the Green River district was formed (in 1904) so as to include its farm, a portion of said farm was already within the boundaries of another drainage district which had been organized in 1889, the Union Special Drainage District. For this reason, it was urged that…