Abel v. Diking & Drainage Improvement District No. 4

Plaintiffs brought action seeking to have certain diking and drainage improvement district assessments and maintenance charges canceled of record, and the title to the lands affected thereby quieted in the plaintiffs. Upon a trial by the court, a decree was entered granting the relief prayed for in the complaint. Defendants, comprising the diking and drainage improvement district and its commissioners, appealed.

Respondents, A. M. Abel and May R. Abel, are husband and wife and are the present owners in fee simple of forty acres of vacant and unoccupied land lying wholly within the corporate…