Dubose v. Levee Commissioners

The plaintiff sued the Board of Levee Commissioners in the parish of Carroll, constituted by the Act of March 18th, 1862, (see Acts, p. 234,) as amended by the Act of 26th March, 1863, p. 44, for $7000 damages, alleged to have been occasioned by the wrongful acts of the latter, in running a line across his premises in the town of Providence, near the rear line thereof, and thereby throwing his dwelling-house, and the most valuable portion of his lots, out of the protection of the levee, and totally destroying their value.

The evidence is, that in December, 1852, the plaintiff bought the…