Holt, Drainage Com'r v. Madison Coal Corp.

OPINION op the Court by

Judge Dietzman

Reversing.

In 1913, there was duly established in Union county a drainage district known as the Dennis O’Nan drainage district. The appellee, Madison Coal Corporation, owned a large tract of land adjacent to this drainage district. In the operation of its mine, the coal company discharged the water pumped from it into a ditch which drained] it into the ditch of the drainage district. The drainage board objecting to the coal company thus, discharging its water, an agreement was entered into in November, 1923, by the drainage commissioner .and the-coal…