Board of Trustees of Monona-Harrison Drainage District No. 1 v. Board of Supervisors

For convenience we disregard the fact that the individual trustees are joined as plaintiffs.

Plaintiff board represents the Monona-Harrison Drainage District No. 1, which includes 62,867 acres in Monona county and 6,753 acres in Harrison county. The district was established in 1904 and construction of its original improvement was •finished in 1908 at a cost of about $465,000. The district is composed principally of bottom land east of the Missouri River, southeast of Sioux City.

Plaintiff’s main ditch extends generally north and south approximately twenty-one miles, about parallel to and a mile…