Westwego Canal & Terminal Co. v. Lafourche Basin Levee Dist.

HAMITER, Justice.

For more than 1Ó0 years prior to September, 1940, the Westwego Canal & Terminal Company, Inc., or its authors in title, possessed as owner certain property in Jefferson Parish consisting of a canal, boat locks ard land, particularly located at a point on the right bank of the Mississippi River across and a short distance from the City of New Orleans.

When its possession of the property was disturbed during or about the named month by the Lafourche Basin Levee District, the disturbance resulting from the building of a levee that traversed and completely destroyed the locks, the…