Turley v. Arnold

The county court of Mercer county rendered a judgment confirming the verdict of a jury assessing benefits to owners of property in the Bay Island Drainage and Levee District No. 1. Plaintiffs, the commissioners of the district, have appealed and the defendants, thirteen owners of lands in the district, have prosecuted a cross appeal.

This proceeding was instituted under section 37 of the Levee Act. (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1941, chap. 42, par. 37.) August 12, 1940, plaintiffs filed their amended petition for an additional assessment for proposed improvements. An order was entered finding that the…