Brittingham v. Board of Com'rs of Drainage Dist. No. 1

Plaintiff is the owner 'of a tract of land, consisting of, approximately, 18.43 acres in the town of Hammond. The board of commissioners of Tangipahoa drainage district No. 1 let a contract to J. H. Sternberg, doing business as the Stern-berg Dredging Company, to dig a drainage canal. In digging the canal it was necessary to dig it through plaintiff’s property. This, the drainage district did, but without obtaining plaintiff’s consent to do so, and without expropriating a right of way. In digging it, the drainage district pursued a straight line across plaintiff’s property along the general…