Taylor v. Burnap

This is a certiorari to review certain action of the drain commissioner under the township drain law.

The case differs in some respects from Lane v. Burnap, ante, p. —1, but it teems with as many errors. The respondent’s counsel argues that it appears on the face of the record that Taylor is not justly entitled to prosecute the writfirst, because of laches in suing it out; and second, because he was a petitioner for the drain in question.

As in the case of Lane v. Burnap the record refutes the first position. The last proceeding by the commissioners was a supplemental report and which according…