Commissioners of Union Drainage District No. 3 v. Commissioners of Highways of Township 40

Plaintiffs in error, who are drainage commissioners of a union drainage district which includes about one-fourth of the town of Cortland, in DeKalb county, and about one-half of the town of Virgil, in Kane county, dug an artificial ditch for the benefit of the district in draining the lands thereof, in an easterly and westerly direction across a public highway on the town line between said towns, which is also the county-line, and after notice to the commissioners of highways of said towns to construct a bridge across the ditch, proceeded to construct the same. They sued the commissioners of…