Duhon v. Buckley

SAVOY, Judge.

Four different plaintiffs, all rice farmers, brought suit for damages allegedly sustained by them as a result of salt water escaping from an oil well water storage reservoir or pit.

Plaintiffs’ petition alleged specifically that their respective lands in three cases border on Coulee Kinney, and in the fourth case, on Coulee Hanks, which flows into Coulee Kinney, in Vermilion Parish, Louisiana; that plaintiffs prepared their lands for planting rice in April, 1962, by drawing water for irrigation from the two coulees; that, in so doing, it came to their attention that the water in…