Stellwagen v. Dingman

SlíAKPE, J.

On October 28, 1922, the following petition was presented to the defendant Dingman, county drain commissioner of Wayne county:

“To the County Drain Commissioner of the County of Wayne.

“Your petitioners respectively show that they are (freeholders of the townships of Nankin, Romulus and Van Burén) Board of Road Commissioners, in the county of Wayne and State of Michigan, and that the said petitioners are (the owners of land) liable to an assessment for benefits on account of a certain drain known and designated as the ‘McCIaughrey drain,’ situated in the townships of Nankin, Romulus…