Board of Com'rs of Atchafalaya Basin Levee Dist. v. C. Lagarde Co.

This was originally a very complicated and much-involved case, as is evidenced by the fact that, although there is not a single disputed fact in the case, nevertheless it required 83 typewritten pages of transcript and 184 printed pages of brief merely to state the issues and develop the propositions advanced on one side or the other.

But during the argument before this court it ultimately developed that the case involved only a few comparatively simple issues which this court would be called upon to decide.

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Briefly stated, the question is whether the plaintiff, a state agency, established as…