Robertson v. Lebermuth
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Appeal from Twenty-Seventh Judicial District Court, Parish of St. James; Paul Leche, Judge. Action by Mrs. Marian Robertson against Jacob Lebermuth. Prom a judgment for plaintiff, defendant appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtBreaux, C. J.
Plaintiff brought this suit to have a right of drain recognized through a bayou known by the name of Veret. This bayou begins at or near Point I-Ioumas, in the parish of Ascension, about two miles above plaintiff’s plantation. It flows from northwest to southwest and crosses her plantation at the upper line, and traverses it and the plantation of defendant, and continues in a southerly direction over a number of plantations. Plaintiff complains of a dam across the bayou, erected on the Lauderdale plantation, which stops the natural flow of the water in the natural bayou and injuriously…
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