Carroll v. Louisiana Highway Commission

ST. PAUL, Justice.

Plaintiff is the owner of two squares of ground in Jefferson parish lying very near the shore of Lake Pontchartrain; that) is to say, only a projected street, forming practically the shore of said lake, lies between said property and said lake.

In 1916 one of the drainage districts of Jefferson parish, for the purpose of protecting said property and others from the waters of said lake, built a dyke or levee across a pbrtion of said property, with the consent or at least the acquiescence of plaintiff.

About ten years later the drainage districts built another, and somewhat…