Baker v. Arctic Ditchers

Susan Baker, the wife of the other appellant, was the owner of two forty-acre tracts of land lying in Tipton county, Indiana, upon which the appellee, a corporation organized under the act of May 22d, 1869, “ to authorize and encourage the construction of levees, *311dikes and drains,” etc., (3 Ind. Stat. 222,) procured an assessment of benefits to arise from the construction of the proposed drain. The appellants herein appealed from the assessment to the Tipton circuit court, and a change of venue was taken to the Howard circuit court, where the cause was tried by a jury, who found for the…