Simeon v. Board of Levee Com'rs

These are a series of suits commonly called “reparations cases.” In some of these cases the same points of law are at issue, and for the convenience of the court they have been consolidated into groups for the purpose of decision.

Plaintiffs entered separate suits against the defendant under the provisions of a constitutional amendment embodied in Act No. 2 of the Extra Session of the Louisiana Legislature of September, 1927. The petition in each instance claims loss or damage, first, for trapping, and, second, for loss of revenue, such as labor, fishing, etc., on account of the artificial…