GREATER BATON ROUGE PORT COMMISSION v. WATSON

No. 41460.

68 So.2d 901 (1953)

224 La. 136

GREATER BATON ROUGE PORT COMMISSION v. WATSON et al.

Supreme Court of Louisiana.

Rehearing Denied December 14, 1953.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Watson, Blanche, Fridge, Wilson, Posner & Thibaut, Baton Rouge, for defendants-appellants.

Hynes & Mathews, Benton & Moseley, Durrett & Hardin, Baton Rouge, for plaintiff-appellee.


PONDER, Justice.

This is an appeal from a judgment expropriating 52.7 acres of land belonging to the defendants and fixing the compensation to be paid to the defendants at the rate of $569 per acre.

The plaintiff, Greater Baton Rouge Port Commission, brought suit against the defendants, Warren O. Watson, Herbert W. Wimberly, and Mrs. Joanna Glassell Wood, to expropriate a tract of land containing 52.7 acres situated in the Town of Port Allen, Parish of West...

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