Alessi v. Town of Independence
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Appeal from Twenty-Fifth Judicial District Court, Parish of Tangipahoa; W. Scho-. field Rownd, Judge. Suit by George Alessi and others against the Town of Independence. Judgment for plaintiffs for damages and for an injunction, and defendant appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtO’Niell, J.
Six landowners, each owning a separate tract in which the others had no interest, brought this suit for damages alleged to have been suffered by them, respectively. The complaint or cause of action is that the defendant diverted the waste water from an artesian well belonging to the municipality into a drainage canal or ditch running through the plaintiff’s land, and flooded and injured their crops of strawberries. Each of the plaintiffs prayed for a separate judgment, the amounts varying in proportion to the area of their lands, viz.: George Alessi prayed for judgment for $312.50; Dominic…
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