Legal Opinion

Drainage Comrs. of Union Drainage Dist. No. 1 v. Milligan

Illinois Supreme Court

Decided April 18, 1907Published

Appeal from the County Court of Whiteside county; the Hon. Robert B. Shirley, Judge, presiding.

1Opinion of the CourtJustice Farmer

Union Drainage District No. 1 of Hahnaman and Montmorency townships, of Whiteside county, Illinois, was organized in 1882 under the act of 1879, commonly known as the Levee act. Its main ditch had its outlet at the township line, on the west side of Hahnaman and Montmorency townships, into the main ditch of a district organized under the Farm Drainage act, known as Union Special Drainage District of the towns' of Tampico, Prophetstown and Hume, in Whiteside county. The natural incline and drainage of the lands embraced in both districts appear to have been to the westward, so that the surface…

2Cases cited2 opinions

  1. Iroquois & Crescent Drainage District No. 1 v. HarrounIllinois Supreme Court · 1906
  2. Lacey Levee & Drainage District v. LangellierIllinois Supreme Court · 1905

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