Zenor v. Parish of Concordia
Supreme Court of Louisiana
from the District Court of Concordia. This was a trial by jury. Farrar, J., presiding.
1Opinion of the Court
By the court:
Preston, J.
In this State, so much exposed to ruinous inundations, the public have the undoubted right, on the' shores of the Mississippi river, to the use of the space of ground necessary for the making and repairing of the public levees and roads. C. C. art. 661. It was the condition of the ancient grants of land on the Mississippi river, and sufficient depth was always given to each tract, to prevent the exercise of the public rights from proving ruinous to the individual.
Speculation and other motives have, in later times, caused the division and sale of some tracts, and…
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