Racer v. State ex rel. Rhine

The appellant prosecutes this appeal from a decree rendered in a suit brought on the relation of Charles A. Rhine, commissioner of drainage, to enforce the collection of an assessment levied to pay the cost of constructing a public ditch. The proceedings for the construction of the ditch were had in the Blackford Circuit Court, and were conducted under the drainage law of 1881, and the amendatory statute of 1883; section 4273, R. S. 1881, et seq.; Elliott’s Supp., sections 1175 to 1188. The ditch was ordered to be constructed by the circuit court, the order was so far carried into effect by…