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Drainage Commissioners of District No. 1 of Young America v. Drainage Commissioners of District No. 7 of Shiloh

Appellate Court of Illinois

Decided September 11, 1900PublishedCited by 1 opinion

Appeal from the Circuit Court of Edgar County; the Hon. Henry Van Seller, Judge, presiding. Heard in this court at the May term, 1900.

1Opinion of the CourtJustice Wright

Both appellant and appellee are drainage districts organized under the act commonly known as the farm drainage act, and this suit was brought by the former against the latter to recover under the provision's of the forty-second section of that act, because the latter drainage district connected its ditches with the ditches of the former drainage district, already made. The declaration contained two counts. The first count alleges that appellant constructed an open ditch, beginning at the south boundary of the district, which is the town line between the towns of Young America and Shiloh, and…

2Cases cited1 opinion

  1. People ex rel. Caldwell v. Commissioners of Wild Cat Drainage DistrictIllinois Supreme Court · 1899

3Cited by1 opinion

  1. Drainage Commissioners of Drainage District No. 2 v. Drainage Commissioners of Union Drainage District No. 3Appellate Court of Illinois · 1904

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