ACADIA-VERMILION RICE IRRIGATING CO. v. BROUSSARD

No. 1691.

185 So.2d 908 (1966)

ACADIA-VERMILION RICE IRRIGATING COMPANY, Inc., Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Gustave BROUSSARD et al., Defendants-Appellants.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Third Circuit.

April 27, 1966.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Bean & Rush, by Warren Rush, Lafayette, for defendant-appellant.

Kibbe, Edwards, Cooper & Sonnier, by Silas B. Cooper, Jr., Abbeville, Monroe & Lemann, by T. B. Lemann, New Orleans, Pugh, Buatt & Pugh, by Lawrence Pugh, Crowley, for plaintiff-appellee.

Deshotels & Maraist, by Frank Maraist, Abbeville, amicus curiae.

Before TATE, HOOD, and CULPEPPER, JJ.


TATE, Judge.

The trial court granted summary judgment in the plaintiff company's favor, recognizing it as the owner entitled to exclusive use of a servitude for irrigation purposes across lands owned by the defendants. The defendant landowners appeal. They primarily contend that the summary judgment was improperly granted because this suit involves genuine issues of material fact which can be determined only by trial on the merits.

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