Hereford v. Police Jury

The the court was pronounced by

Rost, J.

The plaintiff alleges that he was the owner of a tract of land, having ten arpents front on the river Mississippi; that, after the high water of 1844, it became necessary to construct thereon a new levée, which, in conformity with the general regulations then in force, was to be placed at least one arpent from the baplc of the river, which levée the petitioner held himself ready and willing to construct whenever directed to do sp; that the police juiy conceiving that the levée should be placed at more than one arpent from the bank of the river, appointed…