Huff v. Fetch

The appellees instituted this proceeding before the board of commissioners of LaGrange county, to establish a public drain in said county.

Said proceeding was appealed to the LaGrange Circuit Court and, in that court, on May 8, 1922, the appellants filed a verified pleading which they called an answer or plea in abatement, and in which it was alleged that said court had no power to proceed further or order said proposed drain established, for the reasons, as therein alleged, that the proposed drain would empty into a fresh water lake of more than ten acres in area and was to be constructed by…