People ex rel. King v. Leonard

The Sangamon and Drummer Drainage District of the counties of Champaign and Ford was organized in the county court of Champaign county under the Levee act.- In February, 1915, the commissioners filed a petition in that court representing that the main ditch had been constructed in accordance with the order of the court, and that certain lands within the district, located mostly within the corporate limits of the town of Gibson City, a city of over 2000 inhabitants, needed additional drainage; that the cost of constructing the additional work was estimated at $38,-273.96; that certain…