Bradley v. Wisconsin Drainage Co.

From the complaint it appears .that the original contract in 1918 was let by the members of the town board under the Town Drainage Law as it then stood, and the alleged fraudulent settlement was apparently made under the same law. A substantial change in the drainage laws was made by ch. 446, Laws of 1919, whereby, what are now secs. 1368 — 1 to 1368 — 30, Stats., took the place of the former laws. It is apparent that the new contract to complete the ditch was made; the new assessment against plaintiff’s property of which he now com*606plains was levied; and the work was done under the authority…