Brougher v. Lost Creek Drainage District

The Lost Creek Drainage District in White and Hamilton counties was organized by the order of the county court of White county under the Levee act. The main ditch of the district was laid out and constructed on the line of a natural water-course known as Lost creek, which crossed a certain highway in the town of Mill Shoals, in White county. In excavating the ditch along this water-course the commissioners removed a bridge in this highway, and, upon being requested by the plaintiff in error Brougher, the sole commissioner of highways of the town of Mill Shoals, refused to re-build the bridge.…