Sklar v. Natchitoches Levee and Drain

Full title: LOUIS E. SKLAR ET UX., PLAINTIFFS-APPELLANTS, v. NATCHITOCHES LEVEE AND…

Court: Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Third Circuit

Date published: Jul 22, 1980

386 So. 2d 712 (La. Ct. App. 1980)

Opinion

No. 7769.

July 22, 1980.

Appeal from Tenth Judicial District Court, Parish of Natchitoches; W. Peyton Cunningham, Jr., Judge.

Watson, Murchison, Crews, Arthur Corkern, R. Raymond Arthur, Natchitoches, for plaintiffs-appellants.

Gahagan Gahagan, H.C. Gahagan, Jr., Natchitoches, for defendant-appellee.

Before FORET, STOKER and LABORDE, JJ.

This suit is one of two cases consolidated below.

[3] LABORDE, Judge.

This is the companion case to Walker, et al. v. Natchitoches Levee and Drainage District, et al., 386 So.2d 709 (La.App. 3rd Cir. 1980), decided by us this day.

For the reasons assigned therein, the judgment of the trial court is reversed and the case remanded for further proceedings with instructions that plaintiffs be given the opportunity to cure any defect by amendment. Costs of this appeal are taxed to defendant-appellee.

REVERSED AND REMANDED.