Legal Opinion

Widow & Heirs of Koerber v. New Orleans Levee Board

Supreme Court of Louisiana

Decided March 7, 1899No. 12,940PublishedCited by 13 opinions

ON APPEAL from tbe Civil District Court for the Parish of Orleans. Ellis, J.

1Opinion of the Court

*525The opinion of the court was delivered by

Nioiiolls, C. J.

Plaintiffs, the widow and heirs of Paul Koerber,. in a petition filed on May 12th, 1897, asked judgment in solido against the city of New Orleans, the Orleans Levee Board, Alonzo C. Bell, Otto Thoman and William G. Mitchell, for thirty-five hundred dollars.

Otto Thoman, one of the defendants, was at the time of the acts-referred to in plaintiff’s petition, president of the Orleans Levee' Board, Alonzo 0. Bell, city engineer, and William G. Mitchell, a contractor, under a contract with the Orleans Levee Board, for the purpose of repairing…

2Cases cited1 opinion

  1. Sicard v. ChitzSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1839

3Cited by13 opinions

  1. Bd. of Com'rs of Orleans Levee Dist. v. Dept. of Natural ResourcesSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1986
  2. Delaune v. Board of CommissionersSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1956
  3. Wolfe v. HurleyDistrict Court, W.D. Louisiana · 1930
  4. McGeehan v. Board of Levee Com'rs.Supreme Court of Louisiana · 1928
  5. Southport Mill, Ltd. v. FriedrichsSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1928

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