Hebert v. T. L. James & Co.

ELLIS, Judge.

Plaintiffs own a tract of land situated in the Parish of Terrebonne about nine miles below the City of Houma, and seek an injunction to prevent T. L. James & Co., Inc. and its superintendent from constructing two road improvement projects across this tract. The Department of Highways, intervenor and appellant herein, was constructing these projects through its contractor. This Department filed an intervention in which it took the position that the public had -a servitude over the tract under which the Department had the right to use the right of way necessary for the construction…