Vermilion Parish Police Jury v. Albert

pAMY, Judge.

A parish police jury filed suit against the defendant sugar-cane farmers, alleging that the defendants’ harvesting operations damaged a parish road. The police jury *69sought to recover amounts expended to repair the damaged road. A bench trial was held in the matter, in which the judge dismissed the police jury’s cause of action on the basis that the defendants could not have reasonably foreseen that their harvesting operations would cause damage to the road. From this judgment, the police jury appeals. For the following reasons, we affirm.

Factual and Procedural Background

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