WOOD v. BD. OF COM'RS FOR PONTCHARTRAIN ETC.

No. 7504.

338 So.2d 744 (1976)

Frank B. WOOD v. BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS FOR the PONTCHARTRAIN LEVEE DISTRICT.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Fourth Circuit.

Rehearing Denied November 16, 1976.

Writ Refused January 14, 1977.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ponder & Richardson (Lamar M. Richardson, Jr., Metairie, Ralph R. Miller, Norco, for plaintiff-appellant.

Thomas J. Kliebert, Gramercy, for defendant-appellee.

Before REDMANN, LEMMON and BOUTALL, JJ.


T. LEMMON, Judge.

This is an action to recover the value of and damages to plaintiff's two parcels of vacant land which defendant Levee Board used to construct or to enlarge levees along two separate canals which empty into Lake Pontchartrain. Plaintiff has appealed from a judgment awarding him the value of the land as of 1949, the year in which construction of the original levees commenced.1 On appeal plaintiff contends that the judgment...

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