Richardson & Bass v. Board of Levee Commissioners

When the State of Louisiana transferred the land in dispute to the Board of Commissioners of the Grand Prairie Levee District, by a written instrument that was duly recorded in the Conveyance Records of Plaquemines Parish, title there-, to was vested absolutely in the transferee. Section 11 of Act 24 of 1898, LSA-R.S. 38:1001; State ex rel. Hodge v. Grace, 191 La. 15, 184 So. 527; Kemper v. Atchafalaya Basin Levee District, 214 La. 383, 37 So.2d 844. This being true, a divestiture of that absolute title could be accomplished by the Legislature only through a statute expressing an intention to…