Louisiana Southern Ry. Co. v. Board of Levee Com'rs of Orleans Levee Dist.

This suit grows out of what is locally known as the "Caernarvon Crevasse," which was artifically created under executive orders below the city of New Orleans on April 29, 1927. The suit is founded on the provisions of the constitutional amendment embodied in Act No. 2 of the Extra Session of 1927, and was originally brought to recover $489,752.34 for property damage and loss of revenues and anticipated profits alleged to have been suffered by plaintiff as a result of the crevasse.

Plaintiff's claims were listed under Schedules A and G on forms prepared by the Reparations Commission, which was…