Squier v. Nash

This bill of complaint was filed by supervisors Squier and Corey, together with over 250 other residents and taxpayers of the townships of Decatur and Hamilton in Van Burén county, to restrain the three county drain commissioners of Cass, Berrien, and Van Burén counties and the deputy commissioner of agriculture, constituting the tri-county drainage board, from taking further steps in a supplemental tri-county drainage proceeding, commenced in 1924, to straighten, deepen, widen, and clean out what is known as the Dowagiac river drain. That drain, as previously laid out and partially…