Inlet Swamp Drainage District v. Anderson

This is an appeal by certain land owners from a judgment of the county court of Lee county confirming a drainage assessment against their lands in the Inlet Swamp Drainage District, in said Lee county.

The Inlet Swamp Drainage District was organized under the Levee act in 1887, and embraces approximately 30,000 acres of land. The slope of this body of land is downward towards the west, and before the organization of the drainage district about 10,000 acres in the western part thereof were during most of the year covered with water, and were known as the Inlet swamp. This swamp' was the basin…