Fabre v. Board of Com'rs

O’NEILL, G. J.

■'■This is a suit for compensation for losses alleged to have been suffered by the plaintiffs in consequence of the artificial crevasse, made under executive orders, in the levee on the Mississippi river bank, at Caernarvon, on the 29th of April, 1927. The claim is founded upon the constitutional amendment adopted in April, 1928, pursuant to Act No. 2 of the Extra. Session of 1927, making provision for reparation or compensation for losses sustained within the affected area.

The plaintiffs, being a commercial partnership, have a store at Delacroix Island, in the area that was…