Lindsay v. Eastwood

The plaintiff sued defendant in a justice’s court, and declared orally on all the common counts, and specially for money paid to the use of the defendant *337for a ditcb tax for the year 1884, which plaintiff paid to-discharge an assessment levied upon certain lands which he purchased of defendant in the month of September, 1885, and for which he received a full covenant warranty deed.

In 1884 the county drain commissioner of Wayne county, by virtue of proceedings taken before him, cleaned out, deepened, and widened what was called the “ Blakely Ditch. ” He ascertained the cost and expense…