Perkins v. Palo Alto County

— Plaintiff owns eighty acres in Section 17 in West Bend Township in Palo Alto County, which is bounded on the west and south by county roads. In April 1951 he filed his petition in equity against the defendant County, the Board of Supervisors, and the individual members thereof, alleging that defendants graded the road along the south side of his land (sometimes called the West Bend Road) across a natural, north to south, watercourse without putting a culvert through such grade, and without putting in an adequate ditch to take the water, thus backing up the water and flooding his land. The…