Honey v. the Bertig Co.

Appellant, J. C. Honey, is the owner of 80 acres of land in Greene county described as the west half of the northwest quarter, section 1, township 16 north, range 6 east. Appellee, The Bertig Company, owns an 80-acre tract adjoining appellant’s land on the east.

About 25 years ago territory embracing these two tracts of land, together with adjacent lands, was organized into what is known as Johnson Creek Drainage District No. 2. This drainage district constructed a ditch which began about a mile north of the two tracts involved here, and extended, approximately in a straight line, in a…