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TENNESSEE GAS TRANSMISSION CO. v. WILLIAMS

No. 39501.

63 So.2d 9 (1953)

222 La. 593

TENNESSEE GAS TRANSMISSION CO. v. WILLIAMS.

Supreme Court of Louisiana.

January 12, 1953.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Dhu Thompson and Lea S. Thompson, Monroe, for appellant.

Lemuel C. Parker, W. Crosby Pegues, Jr., D. Ross Banister, Philip K. Jones and Joseph A. Loret, Baton Rouge, for amici curiae.

Shotwell & Brown, Burt W. Sperry, Monroe, for plaintiff-appellee.

HAWTHORNE, Justice.

Plaintiff, Tennessee Gas Transmission Company, instituted this suit against James Olen Williams seeking to acquire by expropriation a right of way 50 feet in width over and across defendant's 10-acre tract of land in the Parish of Ouachita, Louisiana. On this right of way, .43 of an acre in area, the plaintiff proposed to lay a 30-inch high pressure gas line.

Defendant in his answer prayed that he be awarded the sum of $2,900 in the event...

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