ST. MARTIN v. GENERAL HOMES-LOUISIANA, INC.

No. 84-CA-606.

467 So.2d 1361 (1985)

Jane ST. MARTIN, wife of/and Robin Vicknair and Rebecca Nicely, wife of/and Dennis Childs v. GENERAL HOMES-LOUISIANA, INC.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Fifth Circuit.

April 15, 1985.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Don Almerico, Jerome A. Kunkel, Destrehan, for plaintiffs-appellees.

Liskow & Lewis, Julie E. Schwartz, New Orleans, for defendant-appellant General Homes-Louisiana, Inc.

Calvin Lucien Perilloux, LaPlace, for third-party defendant-appellee Marvin Builders, Inc.

Before CHEHARDY, GAUDIN and DUFRESNE, JJ.


CHEHARDY, Judge.

In this appeal we must determine whether a landowner is strictly liable for flood damage to neighboring property resulting from the landowner's filling and grading his land so as to block his neighbor's drainage across it, where the drainage is not the result of a natural servitude.

The plaintiffs in this matter, Robin and Jane Vicknair and Dennis and Rebecca Childs, own adjacent lots fronting on Cambridge Drive in Cambridge Place East subdivision...

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