In re Forked Deer Drainage District
Tennessee Supreme Court
PROM GIBSON Appeal from the Circuit Court of Gibson County.— Thomas E. Harwood, Judge.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Williams
A petition was filed in the county court of Gibson county, seeking to have created a drainage district *686for the improvement of lands along the middle fork of the Forked Deer river in the comities of Madison, Gibson, and Crockett, the procedure being that set forth in Act 1909, chapter 185, as amended by Act 1915, chapter 61.
The county court held that it was without jurisdiction and power in the premises, and declined to act. On appeal to the circuit court this ruling was upheld.
The amendatory act of 1915 undertook to prescribe an additional method of procedure, and to give the county court of…
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- State ex rel. Bell v. CummingsTennessee Supreme Court · 1914
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