Dickinson v. Van Wormer

The plaintiff in error brings certiorari to review certain proceedings taken in the township of Sumpter, in Wayne county, whereby a certain drain was laid out and its construction ordered at the expense of land owners along the line thereof. Numerous objections are made to the proceedings, and it appears manifest that the township drain commissioner has not been as careful to follow the statute in the various steps taken by him as he should have been. In these cases where the power to act at all comes from the statute it is to be borne in mind it is impossible to sustain proceedings that do…