Board of Drainage Commissioners of Sweet Water Drainage District v. Brown

(After stating the foregoing facts.)

The plaintiff asserts that the drainage court which established Sweet Water drainage district did not have jurisdiction of any lands which are not situated on Beaver Ruin Creek, Sweet Water Creek, and Jackson’s Creek, up to and including the first Monday in March, 1916; and that any order it may have granted affecting lands owned by him, located outside the district described and on another and larger stream, is absolutely void. The alleged invalidity of such order is based upon the grounds (1) that the drainage court had no jurisdiction of lands not…