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THOMAS v. BOARD OF COMM'RS FOR PONTCHARTRAIN LEVEE DIST.

No. 2834.

208 So.2d 163 (1968)

Miss Gladys A. THOMAS v. The BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS FOR the PONTCHARTRAIN LEVEE DISTRICT.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Fourth Circuit.

March 4, 1968.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

J. J. McKernan, Baton Rouge, for the Board of Commissioners for the Pontchartrain Levee District, defendant-appellee.

Ronald A. Fonseca, New Orleans, for Miss Gladys A. Thomas, plaintiff-appellant.

Before SAMUEL, CHASEZ and JANVIER, JJ.

CHASEZ, Judge.

Plaintiff1 filed suit to recover the fair market value of property she owned fronting on Lake Pontchartrain in Jefferson Parish upon which the Board of Commissioners for the Pontchartrain Levee District erected a levee in 1949. In her petition, filed in 1963, she asserted defendant was without power to appropriate her land and the taking without compensation violated her constitutional guaranty that she could not be deprived...

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