Burroughs v. Donner

On September 30, 1915, certain land owners filed a petition in the county court of Woodford county for the organization, under the Levee act, of a drainage district to be known as the Panther Creek Drainage District. The petition described the lands sought to be included in the district, and alleged that, in order to reclaim and drain said lands and protect the same from overflow “a combined system of drainage independent of levees is necessary, to which end it is necessary to construct the open drain or ditch hereinafter described.” Only one ditch was described in the petition, the course of…