DeSAMBOURG v. BOARD OF COM'RS

No. 93-C-0167.

621 So.2d 602 (1993)

Warren DeSAMBOURG and Mary DeSambourg v. BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS FOR the GRAND PRAIRIE LEVEE DISTRICT.

Supreme Court of Louisiana.

Rehearing Denied September 2, 1993.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mack E. Barham, Robert E. Arceneaux, and Matthew K. Brown, Barham & Arceneaux, for applicant.

Jack P. Brook, Norman F. Pizza, and Michael A. Stroud, Brook, Morial, Cassibry & Pizza, for respondent.


ORTIQUE, Justice1.

We granted writ to determine the meaning of "batture" as it is used in the context of the batture exemption from compensation for the state's appropriation of riparian lands pursuant to its levee servitude.2 Riparian landowners at Shingle Point filed eleven suits, which have been consolidated, against the Board of Commissioners for the Grand Prairie...

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