Dowden v. State ex rel. Bull

Under- section 4273, et seq., R. S. 1881, as amended by the act of 1883, Acts 1883, p. 173, a drain, partly in Greene and partly in Knox counties, was located and established by the Greene Circuit Court.

Two hundred and forty acres of appellant’s lands, situated in Knox county, and described in forty-acre tracts, were assessed by the commissioners of drainage. At the proper time the court made an order declaring the proposed work established, and approving of the assessments, and appointed appellee, Bull, as the commissioner to construct the drain.

Under section 4 of the act of 1883, as such…