People ex rel. Baron v. Drainage District No. 3

This was an information in the nature of quo warranto, instituted in the circuit court of Iroquois county, against Drainage District No. 3, to ascertain .by what authority the drainage commissioners exercised jurisdiction over the lands of relators. To the information the commissioners interposed a plea, in which they, in substance, set up that the district was organized in 1882, under the Farm Drainage act, and that relators had connected ditches on their lands with the ditches of the district, and thereby had voluntarily applied to be connected with the district, and that the commissioners…