Landers v. Garland Canal Co.

Citations

• 52 La. Ann. 1465

Syllabus

<p>Syllabus.</p> <p>A canal company having contracted to furnish rice farmers a sufficient supply of water to irrigate their lands during the planting season, can not be held liable for damages which resulted from an insufficient supply, if the same is attributable to the inadequacy of the fall of rain from which source its canal was to be supplied.</p> <p>In such case the rice farmers are not responsible to the canal company for rent, inasmuch as the shortage of water caused them nearly a total loss of their crop; and the intervention of the act of God which released the latter from liability should not be so construed as to inflict punishment on the former.</p>