Petite Anse Coteau Drainage Dist. v. Youngsville Drainage Dist. of Parish of Lafayette
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Certiorari, etc., from Eighteenth Judicial District Court, Parish of Lafayette; Wm. Campbell, Judge. Suit for injunction by the Petite Anse Co-teau Drainage District against the Youngs-ville Drainage District of the Parish of Lafayette, resulting in decree for defendant, and plaintiff applies for writs of mandamus, cer-tiorari, and prohibition.
1Opinion of the CourtPro Vo Sty, J.
The territory of the plaintiff drainage district consists in greater part of lands whose elevation is but a few feet above gulf level. These lowlands were swamp, but are now cultivable as the result of the drainage created by the plaintiff district. This drainage is through Bayou Petite Anse, which runs through'this swamp land. Originally this bayou had banks only in places, it consisting otherwise of mere bankless depressions. The plaintiff district deepened and enlarged it by dredging.
This was done some years before the organization of the defendant district. The lands of the latter…
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