Peters v. Town of Ruston

HAMITER, Judge.

Plaintiffs seek judgment herein against the town of Ruston for damages on account of the drowning of their two minor daughters.

The original petition and the several supplemental petitions allege the following: Defendant purchased and "is the owner of .a sixty-acre wooded tract of land, located outside of its corporate limits, which is divided into two parcels by a public graveled highway. Situated on one of these parcels is an artificial lake, visible from the road, that was created and filled with water by reason of the erection and construction of a dam altering certain water…