Marion Township Union Draining Co. v. Norris

This was an action in the Boone Court of Common Pleas, wherein the appellees were plaintiffs, and the appellants were defendants, for the breach of a contract between the appellees and the Marion Township Union Draining Company, a body corporate, organized and existing under the act of June 12th, 1852, 1 G & H. 303, for the construction and excavation of a drain, for which the company agreed to pay the appellees, as the work proceeded, at the rate of eighteen cents per cubic yard of excavation, and- two dollars per day for cleaning the line of the drain. The appellees sought to recover for…