Inlet Swamp Drainage District v. Gehant

This was a proceeding in the county court of Lee county to levy a drainage assessment upon the lands of appellants within the present limits of Inlet Swamp Drainage District. Appellants’ lands were not included on the organization of the district but were annexed in 1915. This was the tenth assessment levied upon the lands of the district for the said improvement. The appellants’ lands had not been assessed in any of the previous nine assessments. About 440 acres of the land of appellant Laurent Gehant was assessed $247.20 in this tenth assessment, while appellant Henry F. Gehant had 120…