Cottrell v. Board of County Commissioners

These four cases were heard and submitted at different times Each of the cases raises the quetion of the constitutionality of the ditch law enacted in 1919, 108 O. L., 926; each presents different questions, but all of them present the question of the constitutionality of the ditch law upon different facts in different procedure.

The Legislature of Ohio in 1917 passed a law (107 O. L., Oil) providing for the appointment of a commission to codify the ditch laws, and provided .that a county surveyor, a farmer, and a lawyer should be appointed. The governor appointed as the members, of the…