Commissioners of Pigeon Creek Drainage District v. Frank

The appellees, as commissioners of the Pigeon Creek Drainage District, filed their petition in the county court of Iroquois county seeking to annex certain lands to said district. The district was organized in the year 1940 as a levee district and the petition was filed under section 58 of the Levee Act. (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1943, chap. 42, par. 56.) Petitioners alleged as grounds for such annexation that the lands sought to be annexed were within the watershed of said district’s ditches and would be benefited by the work of such district.

The appellants were all landowners who appeared, filed…