When the owner or owners of wet or spouty land shall desire to improve the same for agricultural purposes by surface or under drains, or both, and when for any cause it becomes necessary to extend said drains upon or over the land of other owners in order to render them effectual, the person or persons, so desiring to drain, may present a petition to the court of quarter sessions of the county wherein such land may be, setting forth the situation thereof, and the necessity for an extension of the proposed drain or drains upon or over the land of such other owners, and specifying the probable extent.