Manson v. Board of Levee Commissioners

HIGGINS, Judge.

Plaintiff, as riparian owner, claims from the defendant the sum of $1,350 for the val-lue of alluvion, sand, or soil alleged to have been removed from the batture, or banks of the Mississippi river, by the defendant, and sold to third persons for private use.

The defenses were as follows:

First, a denial that the plaintiff was the owner of the property, defendant claiming ownership under a previous appropriation of and payment for the property, in the case of Manson v. Board of Levee Commissioners, 154 La. 995, 98 So. 555, citing, in support of this defense, Boyce Cottonseed Oil…