VERMILION CORP. v. VAUGHN

Nos. 80-C-2455 to 80-C-2457.

397 So.2d 490 (1981)

VERMILION CORPORATION, v. Norman VAUGHN. VERMILION CORPORATION, v. Freddie BROUSSARD. VERMILION CORPORATION, v. Larry J. BROUSSARD.

Supreme Court of Louisiana.

April 6, 1981.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John K. Hill, Jr., Lafayette, for defendant-applicant.

Charles R. Sonnier, John E. Ortego, Cooper & Sonnier, Abbeville, L. Harvard Scott, III, Harry McCall, Jr., New Orleans, for plaintiff-respondent.


DENNIS, Justice.*

The question presented for our decision is whether the court of appeal correctly found there was no genuine issue as to a material fact and affirmed summary judgment enjoining defendants' use of man-made navigable canals traversing private lands. We reverse the court of appeal judgment. The pleadings, depositions and affidavits on file show that there is a genuine issue as to a material fact, viz., whether the plaintiff...

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