Hamilton v. City of Shreveport

FOURNET, Chief Justice.

We granted a writ of certiorari to review the judgment of the Court of Appeal, Second Circuit, on the application of the plaintiffs 1, sustaining the defendant’s plea of governmental immunity from tort liability and reversing the judgment of the trial court awarding them damages to their respective properties as the result of the City of Shreveport’s action in raising the water level of Cross Lake in order to maintain an adequate water supply for the City’s waterworks system, limiting, however, our review of the judgment of the Court of Appeal to the question of whether…