Board of Drainage Commissioners v. Stephens

Opinion of the Court by

Judge Thomas

Reversing.

Prior to the institution of the proceedings here involved there'had been duly established a drainage district in Daviess county known as the “John Grillis drainage district.” Principal and lateral ditches were dug pursuant to the recommendations made and rendered in the judgment creating and establishing that district, all of which was done pursuant to chapter 132, Acts of 1912, page 483, and now being section 2380 of our present statutes with its 51 subsections. That statute provided that after the establishment of the district by the judgment of…