Louisiana Soc. for Prevention of Cruelty to Children v. Board of Levee Com'rs
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Appeal from Civil District Court, Parish of Orleans; Porter Parker, Judge. Suit by the Louisiana Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children against the Board of Levee Commissioners, of the Orleans Levee District. Prom the judgment, defendant appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtProvosty, J.
Along the banks of the Mississippi river in the state of Louisiana earth embankments, or levees, are built for holding in the river when in times of freshet it rises above the general level of the country. There is such a levee in front of the plaintiff’s property in the city of New Orleans. It is some 20 feet high, as we gather, and has a 50-foot crown and a slope on the land side of 8 to 1 — 8 feet horizontal to 1 perpendicular. The banks of the river are not stable; on the lower side of bends, where the current strikes, they cave, or are eroded and washed away, so that the levee has…
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