People ex rel. Tireman v. Ruthruff

This is a certiorari to review proceedings taken in Greenfield, in Wayne county, under the township drain law to make a drain or water-course and impose the expense on certain land owners. An examination of the respective objections is uncalled for. The record discloses the same jurisdictional defect which the court has expressly held to be fatal in several cases, and the governing rules have been explained so often that repetition would be scarcely excusable.

The commissioner who officiated down to the time for taking steps to apportion the drain, a Mr. Carey, went out of office last April…