Jordan Land Co. v. Freeborn
Wisconsin Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the circuit court for Juneau county: Byron B. Park, Judge. This is a proceeding to establish the Cutler drainage district in Juneau county. It appearing that certain lands had by mistake been included within the boundaries of the proposed drainage district, the circuit judge made an order amending and changing the boundaries of the proposed district as set forth in the original petition. The proposed district as thus changed embraced 20,800 acres.
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Appeal from a judgment of the circuit court for Juneau county: Byron B. Park, Judge. This is a proceeding to establish the Cutler drainage district in Juneau county. It appearing that certain lands had by mistake been included within the boundaries of the proposed drainage district, the circuit judge made an order amending and changing the boundaries of the proposed district as set forth in the original petition. The proposed district as thus changed embraced 20,800 acres. The petition for the organization of the district states that the petitioners are all more than twenty-one years of age…
1Opinion of the Court
Sibbeokee, J.. The drainage district statute (secs. 1379 — 11 et seq., Stats. Supp. 1906: Laws of 1906, ch. 419) provides that “whenever a majority, of the adult owners of lands within any district of land,” representing one third in area of the lands therein, or whenever the adult owners of more than one half of the lands within such district, desire to organize a drainage district, for the purposes and upon the conditions prescribed by law, they may file a petition containing the requisite allegations with the appropriate court, praying for the organization of the district to carry out the…
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