West v. Bullskin Prairie Ditching Co.

This was a suit to enforce tke payment of an assessment against lands, made by a ditching- association, attempted to be organized under statutes in force prior to 1864. The complaint discloses that the object of the association was the construction of a drain, which is described. We may assume that this averment of the com*139plaint states this object as it was stated in the articles of association required by law to be recorded in the office of the recorder of the county.- Otherwise it would not be true.

The' statute then in force (1 G-. & H. 303) required that , the objects of the association…