Union Drainage District v. O'Reilly
Illinois Supreme Court
Appeal from the Appellate Court for the Second District;— heard in that court on appeal from the Circuit Court of Iroquois county; the Hon. Alfred Sample, Judge, presiding.
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Shore
The question presented by this record is, whether, where a drainage district acquires, by condemnation, the right to enter upon land lying outside of the district, for the purpose of enlarging a natural channel, so as to obtain a sufficient outlet to its drains and ditches, and by deepening and enlarging such natural channel through an inclosed field, leaving it an open drain, thereby rendering such channel impassable, it is required by law to bridge the same.
Section 74 of the Farm Drainage act of 1885, under which this district was organized and these proceedings had, provides that “there…
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