Oltman v. Ohlen’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
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cited by 1 later decisions
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states following
April 2000
most recently cited
1 state decisions
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“After the construction of any county or judicial ditch, no public or private ditch or ditch system, either open or tiled, for the drainage of land not assessed for benefits for such ditch, shall be constructed so as to use the ditch as an outlet without having first secured express authority so to do from the county board[.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[the] statute applies only to construction of a ditch “for the drainage of land not assessed for benefits for such ditch.” Since the petition herein is for the improvement of an existing ditch into which the affected lands have previously been drained, the statute is inapplicable.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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