Rutledge v. Drainage Commissioners District No. 6

This was a bill in chancery by appellant, to restrain the appellees from proceeding as drainage commissioners to open a ditch for drainage purposes across the land of complainant in the bill.

It appears that a drainage district having been organized pursuant to the act of 1879, embracing the lands of complainant, the commissioners filed a map or plat of the work determined upon, and a trial was had by jury before a justice of the peace to ascertain the damages sustained by complainant by reason of the construction of the ditch over his land.

Upon this trial it was discovered that the plat so…