PUBLIC SERVICE CO. v. CORBOY

No. 258.

250 U.S. 153 (1919)

PUBLIC SERVICE COMPANY OF NORTHERN ILLINOIS v. CORBOY, DRAINAGE COMMISSIONER OF THE CALUMET DITCH.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided June 2, 1919.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Buell McKeever, with whom Mr. Charles W. Smith, Mr. Gilbert E. Porter and Mr. William G. Beale were on the briefs, for appellant:

Mr. John H. Gillett and Mr. Frank B. Pattee, with whom Mr. Randall W. Burns was on the brief, for appellee:


MR. CHIEF JUSTICE WHITE delivered the opinion of the court.

An "Act concerning drainage," passed in Indiana in 1907, briefly outlined is as follows: (1) It authorized the appointment by the county commissioners of each county of an officer called a drainage commissioner and made the county surveyor also ex officio such an officer. (2) It empowered a defined circuit court, on the petition of private land owners or of municipal...

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