Troost v. Fellows

The complainants are owners of farms in the township of Zeeland, Ottawa county, and they filed their bill of complaint to enjoin the collection of a drain tax assessed against their several farms, making the county drain commissioner, the board of review, and the township treasurer of said township defendants. The defendant drain commissioner laid out a drain in the lower end of what is known as “ Black Creek Valley,” in said township, and assessed for benefits much of the farming lands in the east two-thirds of the township that was a part of the watershed of Black Creek at a uniform rate.…