Dehon v. Lafourche Basin Levee Board
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Appeal from Twenty-Seventh Judicial District Court, Parish of Ascension; Paul Léche, Judge. Action by Louis Dehon and W. W. Pugh against the Lafourche Basin Levee Board and others. Judgment for defendants. From the judgment, both parties appeal.
1Opinion of the CourtBreaux, J.
Plaintiffs, property taxpayers in the Atchafalaya Basin Levee District and the Lafourche Basin Levee District, brought this suit to enjoin and prohibit the levee board of each of the districts just named from building a dam at the head of Bayou Lafourche, and afterward locks in the place of a dam, and to restrain defendants from doing certain dredgework.
In the year 1900 an act was adopted authorizing these two boards of levee commissioners to build locks at the head of this bayou., To that end, needful powér was delegated to them.
These boards are directed by the act of 1900 to consider in…
2Cases cited5 opinions
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- State v. BeederSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1892
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