Doucet v. Texas Co.

FOURNET, Justice.

The plaintiff, Ludwig Doucet, filed this suit in tort to recover $10,650 in damages from The Texas Company in solido with Shelly Pellegrin, in charge of the company’s oil operations in Lake Pelto, for the value of oysters allegedly killed during the 1932-1933 season in the beds leased by the plaintiff from the state as the result of the company’s pollution of the waters of this lake and surrounding bodies of water— Terrebonne Bay, Lake Barre, Timbalier Bay, and Bay Sainte Elaine — by its negligence in discharging into these waters during the course of its oil operations in…