DELTIC FARM & TIMBER v. BD. OF COM'RS, ETC.

Nos. 13413, 13414.

353 So.2d 1105 (1977)

DELTIC FARM & TIMBER COMPANY, INC., et al., Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS FOR the FIFTH LOUISIANA LEVEE DISTRICT, Defendant-Appellant. ANDERSON-TULLY COMPANY, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS FOR the FIFTH LOUISIANA LEVEE DISTRICT, Defendant-Appellant.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Second Circuit.

December 5, 1977.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

C. Calvin Adams, Jr., Tallulah, for Bd. of Com'rs for the Fifth Louisiana Levee Dist., defendant-appellant; Jerry B. Daye, Ferriday, of counsel.

Voelker, Ragland, Brackin & Crigler, by Frank Voelker, Jr., Lake Providence, for plaintiffs-appellees, Deltic Farm & Timber Co., Inc., et al. and Anderson-Tully Co., plaintiffs-appellees.

Before PRICE, HALL and JONES, JJ.


JONES, Judge.

In these consolidated suits defendant appeals from a judgment recognizing plaintiffs' lands taken by defendant for levee purposes were not subject to the levee servitude provided for in Civil Code Art. 665, and for this reason could not be appropriated. The court held fair market value must be paid for the land to compensate plaintiffs as in an expropriation proceeding.

Prior to trial the parties stipulated that only the legal issue of appropriation...

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