City of New Orleans v. Comeaux

YARRUT, Judge.

The City of New Orleans, on behalf of its Sewerage & Water Board, seeks to expropriate, in fee, Defendants’ property, for the erection of a sewage disposal plant for the treatment of the City’s raw sewage before pumping it into the Mississippi River. Defendants deny in toto the need for the expropriation, contending the sewer disposal plant is “remote, speculative and arises out of the fancies and whimsical desires” of the City and the Water Board; and, alternatively, that any judgment of expropriation should be conditioned upon the completion of the project within five years,…