LANDRY v. BOARD OF LEVEE COM'RS OF ORLEANS

No. 85-C-0688.

477 So.2d 672 (1985)

Keith Patrick LANDRY v. The BOARD OF LEVEE COMMISSIONERS OF the ORLEANS LEVEE DISTRICT.

Supreme Court of Louisiana.

October 21, 1985.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lawrence Kullman, Nicholas Noriea, Jr., Samuel Gainsburgh, Kierr, Gainsburgh, Benjamin, Fallon & Lewis, New Orleans, for plaintiff-applicant.

Sylvia Landry, Montgomery, Barnette, Brown & Read, Baton Rouge, for defendant-respondent.


CALOGERO, Justice.

We must determine whether R.S. 9:2791 and R.S. 9:2795, statutes which confer immunity and/or limited liability for landowners who permit use of their premises for recreational purposes, apply to the advantage of the Orleans Levee Board in a tort suit brought against the Board by a recreational crab fisherman injured because of a hole in the ground adjacent to the Lake Pontchartrain seawall on the New Orleans lakefront.

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