Latham v. Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad

Plaintiffs, who are owners of Swamp and overflowed lands traversed by Medicine creek, filed with the clerk of Ike district court for Frontier county articles of association for the organization of a drainage district. Rev. St. 1913, secs. 1797-1865. Summons was served upon the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad Company and upon Frontier county, the other owners of land within the proposed district. A number of owners of lands below the proposed drainage ditch intervened and challenged the right of plaintiffs to form the proposed district. After a hearing, the district court authorized the…