Kinnie v. Bare

Proceedings purporting to be instituted under Act No. 227 of the Public Acts of 1885 were taken for the purpose of laying out and establishing a drain in the township of Benton, Eaton county. A petition was presented to the defendant, as drain commissioner of the township, signed by five freeholders of the township, requesting him to locate and establish a drain substantially as follows:

“ Commencing at about 84 rods north of the south-east corner of section twenty-three, in said township number three north, of range number four west; thence north-westerly 'across said section twenty-three,…