SCORSUNE v. STATE

No. 42389.

88 So.2d 211 (1956)

230 La. 254

Cologero SCORSUNE v. STATE of Louisiana, through the DEPARTMENT OF HIGHWAYS.

Supreme Court of Louisiana.

May 7, 1956.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

W. Crosby Pegues, Jr., D. Ross Banister, Philip K. Jones, Louis S. Quinn, Glenn S. Darsey, Baton Rouge, Francis X. Vinet, New Orleans, for defendant-appellant.

Louis Lyons, Bossier City, for plaintiff-appellee.


FOURNET, Chief Justice.

Cologero Scorsune is seeking to recover from the state, through its Department of Highways, the sum of $6,250 as compensation for the reduction in value of property owned by him fronting on the Shreveport-Bossier State Highway, Route No. 4, by reason of the appropriation of a strip from this property when the highway was widened and improved in 1952, the appropriation purportedly having been made under authority granted by him in a deed executed...

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