Langan v. Milk's Grove Special Drainage District No. 1

Mr. Presiding Justice Thompson,

dissenting.

The only question before this court is the sufficiency of the petition. The demurrer is special and general. The petition nowhere gives the dimensions or particular description of the main ditch or the two lateral ditches which the petitioner desires to have enlarged and deepened nor does it state how much any of the ditches are to be deepened or widened. Neither does the petition state in positive terms that the changes desired will be of any benefit. The statement of the petition is that if the ditches be deepened and widened between certain points…