90 Neb. 514 | Neb. | 1912
In June, 1906, proceedings were begun in Nemaha county for the purpose of organizing a drainage district under the provisions of chapter 161, laws 1905, commonly known as the “Peabody Act,” which resulted in the creation of a drainage district corporation. An engineer was employed by the board of supervisors, who made a survey and prepared and filed maps and plans with a report ascertaining and apportioning the benefits to each tract of land within the district. The board of supervisors then notified the owners of property affected of the time and place when and where objections to the report of the engineer and to the proposed assessment of benefits and to all other matters and things connected with the assessment could be heard. Much the greater number of property owners made no complaint, but a number of objections were filed, and separate hearings were granted to each objector. The board of supervisors in each case took testimony both on behalf of the objectors to the assessment and in support of the engineer’s report, and personally inspected each tract or parcel of land as to which the proposed assessment was contested. A number of changes were made by the board at the respective hearings, and such changes, when made, reduced the amount of the assessment or operated to exclude from the district certain tracts included by the engineer, and the assessment of which was complained of. An appeal was taken from the board of supervisors to the district court, where hearings were had and decrees rendered, and from
It will be seen that, additional assessable land being brought within the district by reason of the laterals, the total cost was distributed over a greater number of tracts than before. We have nothing before us to indicate that the assessment on the additional land brought in would not operate to equalize the added cost. Moreover, it seems
The appellant has not convinced us that the findings of the district court should be disturbed, and its judgment is, therefore,
Affirmed.