Dick v. Atchafalaya Drainage & Levee Dist.

Appellant sued the appellee in the court below for damages to his land, caused by the construction of a levee by the district. A demurrer to the declaration was overruled. The defendant filed a plea of the general issue and three special pleas, to one of which the appellant demurred. This demurrer was overruled, and, on the appellant declining to plead further, the case was dismissed. The appellant complains of the overruling of the demurrer to this plea, and the appellee, by cross-assignment of error, complains of the overruling of his demurrer to the declaration.

The declaration alleges, in…