People Ex Rel. Endicott v. Prather

I do not concur in the foregoing opinion. This court in People v. Prather, 322 Ill. 280, did not find that there was no classification of the lands of the district by the commissioners. That holding was limited to finding that there was no record showing proper steps for such classification. There has been no holding of this court, prior to the present opinion, that the records of drainage commissioners or other collective bodies cannot be amended to speak the truth. On the contrary, in the Prather case it is intimated that the files shown to exist in the clerk’s office might form the basis…