Inlet Swamp Drainage District v. Mehlhausen

This is an appeal from a judgment of the county court of Lee county ordering the annexation to the Inlet Swamp. Drainage District of certain lands of appellants, Fred Mehlhausen and Emma Schinzer, under section 58 of the Levee act. The application of the district as originally made covered five different tracts of land belonging to these two appellants, amounting in all to 151.62 acres. After a hearing in the county court an order was entered annexing 81.62 acres of the land and the remaining 70 acres were dismissed from the proceedings.

Appellant Mehlhausen owns 61.62 acres of the…