GULF STATES UTILITIES CO. v. BEGNAUD

No. 3838.

72 So.2d 626 (1954)

GULF STATES UTILITIES CO. v. Benoit BEGNAUD.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, First Circuit.

April 26, 1954.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Bailey & Mouton, Lafayette, for appellant.

Babineaux & Huval, Lafayette, for appellee.


ELLIS, Judge.

This is an expropriation suit seeking a servitude area of 1.4 acres across a 35 arpent tract owned by the defendant.

The lower court granted the servitude and compensated the defendant at the rate of $200 per acre of the servitude granted, or $280, and damages for the diminution to the remainder of the property at the sum of $400.

From this judgment the plaintiff has appealed praying this judgment be reduced to the amount of $137 which...

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