Arnold v. Board of Levee Commissioners

DIXON, Justice.

Plaintiffs Henry Arnold and John F. Rob-bert, residents and taxpayers in Orleans Parish, filed a taxpayer’s suit seeking declaratory and injunctive relief against the Orleans Levee Board and the F. Edward Hebert Foundation. The plaintiffs contended that a lease contracted between the Board and the Foundation, in which the Foundation was to lease at a nominal sum certain lakefront property belonging to the Board for the construction of a museum and a library named for Congressman Hebert, was in derogation of statutory prohibitions and municipal ordinances of the City of New…