Houseman v. Montgomery

The township drain commissioner of the township of Lowell, in 1878 commenced proceedings for the construction of what he designated the “ Mud Lake Ditch,” and an assessment of $170 as the expense of constructing a part of the ditch apportioned to the lands owned by the relators was placed upon the tax-roll of that township for the year 1880. If the tax was legal, it was a lien upon the land, and the relators filed their bill of complaint against the township drain commissioner and others to quiet their title to the land upon which the assessment was made. They based their right to relief upon…