Harbaugh v. Martin

Certiorari is sued out in this case to reverse tbe proceedings of tbe drain commissioner in assessing upon the plaintiffs in error and others the expense of deepening and *235widening the Prairie Bonde Ditch, in the township of Springwells. The proceedings purport to have been had under chap. Ifl of the Compiled Latos of 1871, p. 570, the fourth section of which requires the county drain commissioner, upon the application to him in writing of ten or more owners of land in each township in or through which they ask to have a drain constructed, to ^ institute proceedings for that purpose, with…