Commissioners of Little Beaver Special Drainage District v. Livingston

This was a proceeding in the county court of Kankakee county, under section 37 of the Levee act, for improving the'drainage of Little Beaver Special Drainage District in Kankakee and Iroquois counties. The petition alleged the insufficiency of the existing drainage and specified a plan of work for improvement by deepening and widening, making new ditches and transforming some of the open ditches into tile drains, at an estimated cost of over $94,000. On a hearing before the county court the county judge, having visited the territory in question, thereafter, on August 11, 1913, directed the…