Bay Island Drainage & Levee District No. 1 v. Nussbaum

The plaintiff, Bay Island Drainage and Levee District, brought a suit in the county court of Mercer county against the commissioners of Sub-District No. 1 of Drainage Union District No. 1, seeking to have determined the amount which the subdistrict, referred to herein as defendant, should contribute toward the cost of operating a pumping plant by the plaintiff district. The action was brought under section 10 of the act relating to adjoining drainage districts. Ill. Rev. Stat. 1943, chap. 42, par. 228.

Pursuant to that statute, plaintiff drainage district, in July, 1943, filed its report of…