Indian Bayou Drainage District v. Walt

The appellees, who were landowners in the Indian Bayou Drainage District of Lonoke County, Arkansas (hereinafter called district) instituted this action against the district and its commissioners. Appellees alleged that the district was established in September, 1912, under act No. 279 of the Acts of 1909 and the amendments thereto; that the commissioners, under the authority of the general drainage laws, constructed a drainage system twenty-five miles in length, consisting of a main canal and many laterals leading into same; that the benefits to the lands in the district were assessed and…