Louisville, New Albany & Chicago Railway Co. v. State ex rel. Ward

The facts disclosed by the record, and material to an explanation of the ruling of the court, are that in January, 1887, John Brown and others filed, in the Lake Circuit Court, their petition for drainage, under the circuit court drainage act, approved April 6, 1885, p. 129.

In said petition, it was alleged, among other things, that the right of way of the appellant, extending through' sections 17, 18 and 20, in township 32, range 8, in said county, would be affected, and such proceedings were had thereunder that the right of way of the appellant company was assessed for benefits in the sum of…