Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 94, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 March 1912 — Files Brief in Higher Court. [ARTICLE]

Files Brief in Higher Court.

Attorney Otto J. Bruce is preparing a brief which 1 he will soon file in the Supreme Court of Indiana as the initial step of the fight o>f Lake and Porter county land owners against the construction, of the Marble ditch in Jasper county, which has been ordered built by the Jasper county circuit court. The drain as ordered will be one of the largest in Indiana and is designed to reclaim all of the land laying south of the river in Jasper county. John Brown, W. B. Brown and Wm. E. Pitney of Valparaiso, three of the largest land owners on this side of the river, are bringing the appeal before the Supreme Court. AH of the land north of the Kankakee river in Lake and Porter within a distance of two miles has been assessed to drain the marsh over in 'Jasper county and these land owners feel that it is a case of robbing Peter to pay Paul, especially after the great marsh on this side has been drained at the expense of the north side farm owners, and they have reasons to have a “grouch” when asked to assist the neighbors op the other side.

To show the magnitude of the proposed work' the cubic yardage to be excavated in the main ditch is 4,904,268 with a number of laterals not figured in, and the engineer’s estimation on the cost is placed at $328,391, with a great amount of the cost piled upon the land owners of Lake and Porter county, who have long since reclaimed this side of the river.— Crown Point Star.