Lanning v. Palmer
Michigan Supreme Court
Error to St. Joseph; Yaple, J. Certiorari by Ezra Lanning, John Ealkenstine, Jr.,. and others, to review the proceedings of Charles A. Palmer, county drain commissioner, in the matter of cleaning out a drain. The circuit court dismissed the writ, and plaintiffs bring error.
1Opinion of the CourtLong, J.
Certiorari to review the proceedings of the defendant, as county drain commissioner, to clean out what is known as “Section Sixteen Drain” in St. Joseph county. The cause was heard in the circuit court, and comes into this court by writ of error. The court below dismissed the writ of certiorari'.
It appears that on March 1, 1897, all the plaintiffs in the writ of certiorari but Falkenstine petitioned the county drain commissioner, stating in the petition that—
“The said drain needs cleaning out from the north line, south'170 rods or more, to the half-section line; that such cleaning out and…
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