Commissioners of the McGee Creek Levee & Drainage District v. Wabash Railway Co.

The McGee Creek Levee and Drainage District was organized as a drainage district in 1905. It embraces about 10,800 acres of land, one-third of which is in Brown county, the remaining two-thirds in Pike county. When the district was organized a levee was constructed, beginning about a quarter of a mile northeast of the northwest corner of section 23, in Brown county, and extending in an easterly direction about a mile to the west bank of the Illinois river, and was constructed. for the purpose of preventing the waters of Camp creek, which is immediately north of the levee, from overflowing the…