Sauntman v. Maxwell

Baker, J.'

On September 10, 1896, appellants filed a petition for drainage under the act of 1885 as amended in 1889. Acts 1885, p. 129; Acts 1889, p. 285, §5622 et seq. Bums 1894, §4273 et seq. Horner Í897. The proposed drain would affect about 100,000 acres in Jay and Blackford counties and would pass through the corporate limits of the city of Portland. The method to be employed was the straightening and deepening of the Salamonie river. *117The petition named 2,763 persons whose lands would be affected, of whom 533 were nonresidents. Demurrer on the grounds that the court did not have…