Allen v. Hopson Bayou Drainage District

Citations

• 106 Miss. 630
• 64 So. 418

Syllabus

<p>1. Dbains. Proceedings for establishment. Assessment roll. Collateral attack. Mode, of assessment. Code. 1906, sections 1682-1727. Acts 1912, chapter 202.</p> <p>Where after a drainage district was organized under the provisions of chapter 89, Code 1906, said chapter was amended hy the Acts of 1912, chapter 202 so as to permit drainage districts to issue bonds to an amount equal to the total assessed benefits to the lands, the drainage district exhibited its petition in the chancery court asking the court to permit an amendment of its original assessment roll, an owner of land within the district couid not in such proceeding attack the validity of the original assessment, since such questions were settled in the original decree and the landowner then had his day in court. .</p> <p>2. Dbains. Mode of assessments.</p> <p>■ Under Code 1906, chapter 39 as amended by Laws 1912, chapter 202 ■ ; it is not necessary for the commissioners in assessing the benefits upon, the “several tracts of land” to adopt forty acres as the unit.</p>