Howard v. Drainage Commissioners

The appellees are drainage commissioners of a drainage district organized under the provisions of section 76 of the Drainage Act of 1885. Said commissioners having filed in the office of the town clerk of the township in which said district was situated a special assessment tax list in which the sum of $235.85 was assessed upon lands belonging to the appellant, the latter filed his appeal bond and perfected his appeal from said assessment to the county court. Subsequently, on motion of the appellees, the venue of said appeal was changed to the circuit court, and the cause coming on for trial…