Hackett v. State ex rel. Martindale

The proceeding appealed from in this case was an action in the name of the State, on the relation of Jesse L. Martindale, a commissioner of drainage of Fulton county, against Thomas P. Hackett, the appellant, to enforce alleged liens resulting from assessments for the construction of a ditch upon three forty-acre tracts of land belonging to the latter.

The complaint averred that the appellant and one Isaac H. Kersey, on the 12th day of August, 1882, filed their petition iu the office of the clerk of the Fulton Circuit Court, praying for the drainage of certain lands therein described,…