Squaw Creek Drainage District v. Turney
Supreme Court of Missouri
Appeal from Holt Circuit Court. — Eon. Wm. G, Ellison, Judge. (1) The legislative authority to enact drainage laws is derived from the police powers, the right of eminent domain and the taxing power of the State, and the test of their validity is in the object and purposes thereof.
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Appeal from Holt Circuit Court. — Eon. Wm. G, Ellison, Judge. (1) The legislative authority to enact drainage laws is derived from the police powers, the right of eminent domain and the taxing power of the State, and the test of their validity is in the object and purposes thereof. Duke v. O’Brien, 100 Ely. 710; Wurtz v. Hoagland, 114 U. S. 606; Gifford Drainage Dist. v. Shroer, 145 Ind. 572; State v. Polk Co., 87 Minn. 325; People v. Reclamation Dist., 117 Cal. 114. And as the State by its Legislature has power to reclaim swamp and wet lands directly or by its own agents, so it has power to…
1Opinion of the Court
BROWN, C.
— This proceeding was instituted July 27, 1907, by presenting a petition to the circuit court for Holt county, asking that the boundaries of the petitioner, Squaw Creek Drainage District No.-1, in said county, be extended so as to include a tract of land in said county contiguous to said drainage district, described as the west half of the northwest quar*84ter of thenorthwest quarter of section thirty, in township sixty, of range thirty-eight, containing 20.88 acres.. The petition stated as the reason therefor, that the said tract of land has been greatly benefited by the drainage…
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