Lovell v. Sny Island Levee Drainage District

The original Sny Island levee was constructed in the years 1878,1874 and 1875, under the Drainage act of 1871. The decisions of this court in Updike v. Wright, 81 Ill. 49, and other cases, resulted in an amendment to the constitution, which authorized the organization of drainage districts, with power to construct and maintain levees, drains and ditches, and to keep in repair all drains, ditches and levees theretofore constructed under the laws of the State, by special assessments upon the property benefited thereby. (1 Starr & Curtis’ Ann. Stat. p. 122, sec. 31.) And the legislature passed…