Stoddard v. Keefe

This is an appeal from a judgment rendered against the petitioner, B. B. Stoddard, in a mandamus suit prosecuted by him against appellees, as commissioners of a drainage district organized under our Farm Drainage Act, to compel them to widen, straighten, deepen and repair their main ditch from the right of way of the C. B. & Q. B. B. Co., to its outlet in Green Biver, about two and one-fourth miles, so as to prevent overflow and damage to appellant’s half section of farm land abutting that part of the ditch. The case was tried by the court without a jury on pleadings, stipulations and…