WHIPP v. BAYOU PLAQUEMINE BRULE DRAINAGE BD.

Nos. 84-617, 84-618.

476 So.2d 1042 (1985)

Austin Edwin WHIPP and Ruth Elizabeth Whipp, Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. BAYOU PLAQUEMINE BRULE DRAINAGE BOARD, et al., Defendants-Appellants. Raymond J. DOUCET, Irene Miller, and Beulah Richard Boone, Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. BAYOU PLAQUEMINE BRULE DRAINAGE BOARD, et al., Defendants-Appellants.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Third Circuit.

October 10, 1985.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

I.J. Burson, Jr., Young & Burson, Eunice, Donald Richard, Opelousas, Thomas L. Crabson, Baton Rouge, for defendants-appellants.

Tommy Dejean, Opelousas, for plaintiffsappellees.

Before GUIDRY, LABORDE, and KING, JJ.


LABORDE, Judge.

In this consolidated appeal, the trial judge found that defendant Bayou Plaquemine Brule Drainage Board (Drainage Board) and defendant State of Louisiana, through the Department of Transportation and Development (Office of Public Works) failed to prove that they had statutory jurisdiction to enter onto plaintiffs' land for restoration and/or excavation of two connecting canals or ditches designated by the parties as the Whipp Canal and the Boone Canal...

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