Williams v. Board of Levee Commissioners

In this suit, which is one of a number of similar- suits pending in this court, plaintiff sues the levee board for damages alleged to have been caused by the cutting of the Caer-narvon Levee on the 29th of April, 1927. *872Plaintiff claims that the encroachment of the waters from the Caernarvon cut caused his employer, the Orange Grove Refining Company, to close its plant with the result that plaintiff was out of employment for a period of time during which his wages would have amounted to the sum of $340, for which sum this suit is brought.

Learned counsel for plaintiff have frankly admitted that…