Dayton v. Drainage Commissioners
Illinois Supreme Court
Appeal from the Appellate Court for the Third District;—■ heard in that court on appeal from the Circuit Court of Douglas county; the Hon. C. B. Smith, Judge, presiding.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Bailey
This was a bill in chancery, brought by the Drainage Commissioners of Drainage District'number 2, in the town of Newman, Douglas county, against John Dayton, to restrain the defendant from digging a certain ditch on his land and connecting it with one of the ditches in said' drainage district. Said district was organized under the Drainage Act of 1879, embracing a territory of 4300 acres of land, and has constructed a main ditch and various lateral ditches, one of the latter being known as branch ditch number 3. The defendant is the owner of some 400 acres of land, of which an eighty acre…
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