Burmaster v. Gravity Drainage District No. 2

KLIEBERT, Chief Judge.

This litigation by Mrs. Burmaster, individually and as natural tutrix of her minor children (hereafter “Burmasters”), plaintiff-appellee, arose from the death of Mr. Burmaster who was killed on April 23, 1977, when he fell from a three foot wide concrete bulkhead into a water-filled drainage pit and was drowned. The bulkhead and pit were located on premises owned and operated by the St. Charles Parish Gravity Drainage District No. 2. The Bur-masters initially named several entities as defendants, including the Drainage District, the Parish of St. Charles, and the Parish…