Union Drainage District No. 5 v. Hamilton

This is an appeal by Edwin S. Hamilton from a judgment of the county court of Kankakee county confirming a drainage assessment against his lands in said county.

The correct name of the district is “Bourbonnais Union Drainage District No. 5 of the towns of Bourbonnais and Kankakee, county of Kankakee and State of Illinois.” It contains. 1296 acres and was originally organized under the Farm Drainage Act about forty years ago, but was changed by a vote of the landowners May 1, 1941, into a levee and drainage district under the Levee Act. The system of drainage of the district since its…