PETITION OF SEWERAGE & WATER BD. OF NEW ORLEANS

No. 50887.

243 So.2d 809 (1971)

257 La. 716

Petition of the SEWERAGE AND WATER BOARD OF NEW ORLEANS for confirmation of the plan for drainage of Drainage Area A-5, and the report of the board of appraisers assessing benefits in connection therewith.

Supreme Court of Louisiana.

Rehearings Denied February 24, 1971.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Calogero & Kronlage, Pascal F. Calogero, Jr., Foley, Judell, Beck, Morel & Bewley, Harold B. Judell, George Piazza, New Orleans, for petitioner-appellant, Sewerage and Water Bd. of New Orleans.

Chaffe, McCall, Phillips, Burke, Toler & Sarpy, George W. Pigman, Jr., Harvey

G. Gleason, New Orleans, for appellee, Louisville and Nashville Railroad.

Robert A. Katz, Burton G. Klein, Racivitch & Wegmann, Salvatore Panzeca, New Orleans, for defendants-respondents, Alvin P. Lichtentag, and others and John G. Panzeca, and others.

Polack, Rosenberg & Rittenberg, Samuel I. Rosenberg, Charles E. McHale, Jr., Faris, Ellis, Cutrone, Gilmore & Lautenschlaeger, Camille A. Cutrone, Kierr & Gainsburgh, Harvey J. Lewis, Raymond H. Kierr, New Orleans, for defendants-appellees, F. Julius Dreyfous, and others, Mrs. Juanita M. Cortinas, Testamentary Executrix Malja Corp., and others, A. R. Haydel and others, Gentilly Land Co., Inc., and others.

Peter G. Charbonnet, Jr., New Orleans, for appellees, Numa J. Charbonnet, and others.

Monroe & Lemann, Malcolm L. Monroe, Bat P. Sullivan, Jr., Michael A. McNulty, Jr., New Orleans, for appellees, Marion Uthoff Hogle and the Succession of Charles J. Uthoff, Jr.

Monroe & Lemann, Malcolm L. Monroe, Benj. R. Slater, Jr., John D. Wogan, New Orleans, for appellee, Georgia-Pacific Corp.

Deutsch, Kerrigan & Stiles, Guy W. Smith, William G. Tabb, New Orleans, for intervenor-defendant-appellee, Boh Bros. Construction Co., Inc.


TATE, Justice.

The Sewerage and Water Board of New Orleans appeals a District Court judgment declaring invalid certain provisions of the state constitution. As authorized by these provisions, the Board proposed a drainage project. By these proceedings, the owners of the lands affected oppose such project.

The essential issues of this appeal concern: I. Do the state constitutional provisions, as applied, offend Equal Protection guarantees of the federal constitution...

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