Spring Creek Drainage District v. Greenawalt

This is an appeal from a judgment entered by the county court of Kankakee county upon the verdict of a jury vacating a supplemental assessment levied in 1926 for current expenses and for the balance of an additional assessment for repairs and expenses laid in 1923, both under section 37 of the Levee act, against a tract of land comprising 160 acres owned by the appellee. This land is located within the Spring Creek Drainage District, which was organized under the act in 1896.

The appellant contends that the trial court erred (1) in instructing the jury not to consider as evidence the…