Board of Levee Com'rs of Orleans Levee Dist. v. Hulse

BURNS, District Judge.

The board of levee commissioners of the Orleans levee district is an agency of the state of Louisiana, created by the state Legislature by Act 93 of 1890, which provides that they are “constituted and created a body politic, with needful succession and corporate powers,” having “power to sue and be sued in their corporate name,' shall have a common seal, and shall have the franchise and power to do and perform all the purposes of this act, and to acquire, hold, own and convey all the property, real and personal, needful in the premises, and to alienate, mortgage and…