Hosmer v. Hunt Drainage District

Mr. Justice. Craig

delivered the opinion of the Court:

On the 6th day of October, 1888, the commissioners of Hunt Drainage District filed a petition, in which they set up facts showing that it was necessary to raise, by assessment, the further sum of $20,000 in order to complete a levee which was then being constructed, and they prayed for an order authorizing them to make an assessment of benefits on the lands of the district, to raise the. amount. The court heard the application, and entered an order granting the prayer of the petition, and ordered the commissioners to make a third assessment…