People ex rel. Boos v. O'Daniel

The commissioners of Boone’s Pond Mutual Drainage District levied an assessment of $15,389.50 on the lands within the district and on a railroad and the public roads therein, for the purpose of cleaning out the old ditch and making other improvements. A full explanation of the facts was made in Boone’s Pond Mutual Drainage District v. St. Louis, Iron Mountain and Southern Railway Co. 268 Ill. 264. The assessment was known as assessment No. 2, and was apportioned among the lands within the district according to an original classification, and was charged upon the railroad and public roads…