Chicago & Northwestern Railway Co. v. Dreessen

In 1946 the Board of Supervisors of Crawford County, Iowa, established Boyer Drainage District No. 2, Crawford County. This district runs southwest along the valley or flood plain of the Boyer River from the north line of Crawford County to a point six miles southwest of Denison. It is twenty-two miles long, averages less than one mile in width and contains about 13,000 acres. The principal purpose of its formation was the straightening and deepening of that part of the channel of the Boyer River and the mouths of several of its tributaries, including 1.7 miles of the lower end of the channel…