People ex rel. Freeman v. Whitesell

Union Drainage District No. 3, by user, of the towns of Seven Hickory . and Humboldt, in Coles county, was organized in 1901 under section 76 of the Farm Drainage act and the lands in the district were classified as required by that act. The drainage system then adopted consisted of an open "outlet ditch with a headwall at the upper end, above which there were tile drains. In 1912 the commissioners decided that the open ditch should be cleaned out* deepened and widened, and that two lines of tile, of twenty-seven and twenty-four inches, respectively, should.be laid parallel with the existing…