Board of Commissioners v. Caluda

CIACCIO, Judge.

This is an expropriation suit instituted by the Board of Commissioners for the Grand Prairie Levee District (Levee District) against Mike Caluda, Jr. et al under the provisions of LSA-R.S. 38:351. After filing its original petition on February 17, 1983, the Levee District deposited the sum of $25,589.00 for the taking of certain parcels of land belonging to defendants for the purpose of constructing a new levee under the Linwood Levee Setback Project. At the time of expropriation, a new levee along the eastbank of the Mississippi was needed because the existing levee had eroded…