Hogge v. Drainage District No. 7

Hart, C.,

(after-stating the facts). The demurrer admits that plaintiffs’ lands have been damaged for a public use, and that the damage has not been ascertained or paid. This court has held that improvements for the protection of river valleys from overflow by building levees and draining them- by constructing ditches may be united in one improvement district. The court has -also held that a drainage and levee district, after building levees on each side of a river and constructing a reservoir thereby, has no right to build a dam at the outlet of the basin between the lower ends of the levees…