Ritter v. Drainage District No. 1

This is a suit in equity for a mandatory injunction requiring defendants, Drainage District Number 1 of Otoe and Johnson counties and the members of the board of district supervisors, to repair portions of its drainage system to prevent the overflow of plaintiffs’ lands and the destruction of their crops by water. Plaintiffs seek also an injunction to prevent defendants, including the clerk of the district court for Otoe county, from holding an election to vote on the dissolution of the drainage district.

*867Plaintiffs are landowners who paid assessments for drainage which, through failure of the…