Drainage District No. 3 v. People ex rel. Baron

Per Curiam :

An information in the nature of quo warranto was filed in the Iroquois circuit court, against appellant, to inquire by what authority the drainage commissioners of the district exercised jurisdiction, etc., over lands of relators. The commissioners filed a plea justifying their action, etc., upon the ground that the district was organized under the Farm Drainage ’act, (Starr & Curtis, chap. 42,) and that the relators had connected ditches upon their land with the ditches of the district, and thereby had voluntarily applied to be connected, and the commissioners had platted and…