Straus Bros. Co. v. Fisher

The appellant company has a farm at the source or commencing point of a public drain known as “the Fachs ditch,” and its coappellant has the one next below, across which the drain runs for a quarter of a mile, while the farms owned by appellees are crossed by, or otherwise drain into it, along its course for a mile or more after it has passed appellants’ farms. Appellants filed before the board of commissioners a petition that contained all the usual formal allegations of a drainage petition, and averred that petitioners were respectively the owners in fee simple of certain-described lands…