Case ID: ind_90/html/0122-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Elliott, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

No. 9383.
    Foster et al. v. Paxton.
    Drainage.— Ditch Assessment. — Jurisdiction.— Collateral Attach. — When a petition ior the location of a ditch is sufficient to give the county board jurisdiction of the subject-matter, an assessment thereunder can not be collaterally attacked for mere irregularities, the remedy therefor being by an appeal from the order of the board.
    From the Lake Circuit Court.
    
      E. Griffin and — Griffin, for appellants.
    
      J. W. Youohe, for appellee.
   Elliott, J.

— The complaint of appellants was held bad on demurrer, and of this ruling they here complain. The pleading is founded upon a ditching assessment made under the act of 1867, and sets out the proceedings in full. We have no brief from the appellee, and are unable to discover any valid objection to the complaint. The petition filed before the commissioners was sufficient to give the board jurisdiction of the subject-matter, and the remedy of the appellee for mere'irregularities was by appeal, as expressly provided in section 11 of the act. Featherston v. Small, 77 Ind. 143; Marshall v. Gill, 77 Ind. 402.

Judgment reversed.