Hessler v. Drainage Commissioners

This was a writ of error to the County Court of Cook county, sued out by George Hessler, to reverse a judgment rendered by that court in favor of a corporation styled “ The Drainage Commissioners,” against the land of the plaintiff in error.

It appears the general assembly of this State, on the fifteenth of February, 1855, passed an act authorizing the drainage of wet lands in certain townships of Cook county, and constituted certain persons therein named a body politic and corporate, by the name and style of “The Drainage Commissioners,” and by that name to have succession, with power to…