West v. Bullskin Prairie Ditching Co.

Suit to enforce the lien of an assessment by a ditching corporation, under see. 16 of the act for the construction of drains and levees. The complaint did not show the termini of the ditch, the lands, other than those of the defendant, through which it extended; nor did it show that the coi’poration had specified the same in their articles, or otherwise, by any order upon the records of the corporation; nor did it contain a copy of the assessment, or the original. It did not appear that the defendant was a member of the corporation.

The complaint was demurred to, because it did not contain…