Peotone & Manteno Union Drainage District v. Adams

We are of the opinion that it sufficiently appears that appellee had necessity for a tile drain on his own land, for near a quarter of a mile, and that the fall was nothing on his land toward the main tile drain, but in that distance the fall was the other way about seven inches. This would show that, by carrying back of a fall the length of his proposed tile ditch, he could not give his tile grade from the upper end sufficient to drain his land without running out at the top of the ground before reaching the upper end; he would not have ample capacity, according to the original intention,…