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PARISH OF LAFAYETTE, ETC. v. HERNANDEZ

No. 42807.

93 So.2d 672 (1957)

232 La. 1

PARISH OF LAFAYETTE THROUGH THE POLICE JURY OF LAFAYETTE PARISH v. Pierre HERNANDEZ.

Supreme Court of Louisiana.

February 25, 1957.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Landry, Watkins, Cousin & Landry, New Iberia, for defendant-appellant.

Bertrand DeBlanc, Dugas, Bean, Bertrand & Smith, Lafayette, for plaintiff-appellee.

HAWTHORNE, Justice.

This is an expropriation suit instituted by the Police Jury of Lafayette Parish to acquire for a drainage canal a strip of land approximately 400 feet wide extending across the property of the defendant from its northwestern boundary to the Vermilion River on the southeast. The land sought to be expropriated is 20.23 acres out of a tract of about 134 acres owned by the defendant situated on the southern fringe of the City of Lafayette. After trial...

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