Sproul v. Springman

Mr. ChiEE Justice Duncan

delivered the opinion of the court:

This is an appeal from an order and judgment of the county court of Fayette county sustaining legal objections to and dismissing the amended petition of appellants, D. H. Sproul and others, for the organization of an outlet drainage district to be known as Okaw Valley Outlet Drainage District, under section 65a of the Levee act, added in 1917.

Under the original petition the proposed district was to embrace about 77,000 acres of land situated in the counties of Fayette, Clinton and Bond, the greater part of the proposed district being…