State ex rel. Harris v. Hanson

Epperson, C.

This action is one in the nature of quo warranto to determine whether or not the Farmland, Fremont & Railway Drainage District, of which the defendants are, or purport to he, the officers, is a legally existing corporation. The district was organized under the provisions of an act of our last legislature, published as chapter 153, laws 1907. The constitutionality of this act is questioned. It is in part as follows:

“Section 1. Whenever it will be conducive to the public health, convenience or Avelfare either to drain any wet land, or to drain any land subject to overflow by water,…