Murff v. Louisiana Highway Commission

TALIAFERRO, Judge.

This suit is an aftermath of the one between the same parties, decided by us in March, 1933, and reported in 146 So. 328. In that case the demands of plaintiff for damages for destruction of his 1936 cotton crop by overflow rainwater being impounded on his farm lands because of the inadequacy of drainage allowances through highway No. 80 were nonsuited. The nonsuit was predicated upon the erroneous theory of plaintiff that the measure of his right to damages was the value of the destroyed crop in a matured state. The only evidence offered by him was in support of this…