Dowd v. Drainage District No. 1 in Harmon Township

Appellant had constructed a drainage ditch across the lands of appellee. In 1895, appellant had enlarged and deepened the ditch after making an assessment for that purpose; still the ditch was not of sufficient capacity to carry off the waters from the district. Subsequently upon a petition of landowners in the district, a writ of mandamus was awarded commanding the commissioners of the district to deepen the ditch to an average depth of seven feet, and to widen it to a width of twenty feet at the bottom with a slope in said bank of one foot to each foot in depth. The district made an…