Kimball v. Board of Supervisors

— The drainage ditch in question was constructed largely for the purpose of carrying the overflow water from what *784is known as “Van Steuben’s Creek” to an outlet in Saylor Creek. The headwaters of Van Steuben’s Creek are in the higher lands adjacent to and lying above the so-called “Saylor bottoms, ’ ’ or lower lands adjacent to Saylor Creek. These waters flow on steep grades with high velocity, and bring a large amount of silt from the higher lands to the bottom lands. At the head of the Saylor ditch, the Van Steuben Creek comes out upon a broad, alluvial flat, and the silt brought down by…