Buchanan v. Red Banks Creek Drainage District

This is an appeal from a decree overruling appellant’s protest against an assessment by the appellee of lands of the former in order to effect the sale of bonds of the district in the sum of $25,000 for maintenance and repairs alleged to be “absolutely necessary to preserve and maintain the drainage system of the district. ’ ’

This district was organized June 21, 1926, under Chapter 195, Laws of 1912, and Chapter 269, Laws of 1914, Code 1942, Section 4674 et seq. Thereupon, a canal eleven miles in length was constructed, running through the counties of Marshall and DeSoto and into what was…