St. Vrain v. Columbia Bottom Levee Co.

Napton, Judge,

delivered tlie opinion of the court.

The defendant in this case was incorporated by an act of the legislature passed March 8, 1859, with authority to “survey, locate and establish levees, ditches and embankments or other needful works,” through certain tracts of land within a district in St. Louis county particularly described and bounded, and to keep such levees, ditches and embankments in use and repair. This was to-be done at the cost and charges of the proprietors, and to raise the necessary funds a tax per acre, limited to $2.00, was allowed to be levied and collected. The…