Board of Supervisors v. Winnebago Swamp Drainage Co.

This was a suit in chancery, brought by appellants, in the Henry circuit court, against appellees, for a specific performance of a contract entered into by the parties for the drainage of the swamp and overflowed lands in Henry county. The bill alleges that the general assembly, by an act adopted on the fourteenth day of February, 1855, incorporated appellees as The Winnebago Swamp Drainage Company, with the powers necessary to accomplish the purposes of their creation; that the general assembly, having given the lands to Henry county, and to reclaim the lands, and to add to the salubrity of…