Delta Duck Club v. Barrios
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Appeal from Twenty-Ninth Judicial District Court, Parish of Plaquemines; R. Em-met Hingle, Judge. Suit by the Delta Duck Club against George Barrios. From a judgment in favor of defendant, complainant appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtProyosty, J.
Plaintiff is a corporation whose main object is hunting and fishing. It maintains a game preserve, and this suit is brought to enjoin the defendant, a professional hunter and trapper, from exercising his vocation thereon.
For many miles above the head of the *360passes which constitute the mouth of the Mississippi river the banks of the river consisted formerly of narrow strips of land extending but a few acres back, beyond which were the waters of the Gulf. Half a century or so ago a man by the name of Cubitt cut a ditch across the strip on the east side of the river a few miles, above the head…
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