Tenneco Oil Co. v. Board of Com'rs

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• the levee district bears “the burden of proving that the servitude taken is in fact batture,” in order to claim the exemption from compensation
• “Although the riparian landowner still owes the legal servitude of Civil Code Article 665, the public (i.e. state, levee board) can no longer exercise that servitude without payment of just compensation.

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