Misich v. McGuire

The plaintiffs are owners of one hundred twenty-eight acres of land in drainage district No. 1 in Snohomish county, of which defendants are the duly elected, qualified, and acting commissioners. The district was organized in 1911 pursuant to the provisions of chapter 115 of the Laws of 1895, p. 271 (Rem. Rev. Stat., § 4298 [P. P. C. § 511-1] et seq.).

The district embraces some three thousand acres of land south of the Snohomish river. It extends west along the river from a point near the town of Snohomish for a distance of three miles, and to the foothills to the south. The land in the…