Pursley v. Manley

The original drainage act of 1911 (Acts 1911, p. 108), which merely created a uniform method of *814creating drainage districts and provided the machinery for the operation of the law, enacted rules by which the amount of assessments upon the landowners of the drainage district should be determined. No landowner was made liable to an assessment if he was able to pay his proportionate part of the expense of draining the drainage district in cash. The assessments which entailed liability upon the landowner in the drainage district were confined to those for whose benefit it was necessary to issue…