Marshall v. Commissioners of Upper Cache Drainage District

The Upper Cache Drainage District, comprising several thousand acres of land in Johnson and Union counties, was organized in 1921 in the-county court of Johnson county under the provisions of the Levee act. The estimated cost of the proposed improvement was $250,000. At a cost of about $12,000 the commissioners caused the lands to be surveyed, had an estimate of cost made, and prepared and filed the assessment roll. August 30, 1923, 155 land owners of the district filed a petition in the county court praying that the whole system of proposed works be abandqned and the district abolished. An…