PLAQUEMINES PARISH GOVERNMENT v. STATE

Nos. 2001-CA-1027, 2001-CA-1028.

826 So.2d 14 (2002)

PLAQUEMINES PARISH GOVERNMENT v. STATE of Louisiana and Chevron U.S.A., Inc. Chevron U.S.A., Inc., et al. v. State of Louisiana, Plaquemines Parish Government, et al.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Fourth Circuit.

Rehearing Denied May 15, 2002.

Writ Denied September 13, 2002.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

L.V. Cooley, IV, Special Assistant Parish Attorney, Plaquemines Parish Government, Belle Chasse, LA, for Plaintiff/Appellee, Plaquemine Parish Government.

Thomas F. Gardner, Mary Ann Darr Wegmann, Roger C. Linde, Douglas A. Kewley, Gardner & Kewley, Metairie, LA, for Appellees, Lobrano Interests.

Robert E. Tarcza, Tarcza & Gelderman, LLC, New Orleans, LA, for Appellees, Chauvin Interest.

Richard P. Ieyoub, Attorney General for the State of Louisiana, E. Kay Kirkpatrick, Gary L. Keyser, Isaac Jackson, Jr., Assistant Attorneys General for the State of Louisiana, Baton Rouge, LA, and Patrick S. Ottinger, Special Assistant Attorney General, Ottinger, Hebert, Sikes & Hebert, L.L.C., Lafayette, LA, for Defendant/Appellant, State of Louisiana.

(Court composed of Judge JAMES F. McKAY, III, Judge DENNIS R. BAGNERIS, SR., Judge MAX N. TOBIAS, JR).


McKAY, Judge.

By Act No. 18 of 1894, Act No. 205 of 1910, and Act No. 324 of 1938 as amended, the State of Louisiana created the Buras Levee District (BLD) and provided for the transfer to its Board of Commissioners of all lands belonging to the State within the geographic limits of the BLD. These lands included a tract of land located within the fractional Section 20, Township 22 South, Range 30 East, and referred to herein as Tract 87. On June 11, 1938, the BLD...

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