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DEPARTMENT OF HIGHWAYS v. UNITED GAS PIPE LINE CO.

Civ. A. No. 6162.

153 F.Supp. 698 (1957)

DEPARTMENT OF HIGHWAYS, STATE OF LOUISIANA, v. UNITED GAS PIPE LINE COMPANY.

United States District Court W. D. Louisiana, Shreveport Division.

August 9, 1957.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

W. Crosby Pegues, Jr., D. Ross Banister, and Glenn S. Darsey, Department of Highways, State of Louisiana, J. Elton Huckabay, Huckabay & Wall, Baton Rouge, La., for plaintiff.

John M. Madison, Wilkinson, Lewis, Wilkinson & Madison, John T. Guyton, Hargrove, Guyton, Van Hook & Hargrove, W. O. Crain, and Frank O. Looney, Shreveport, La., for defendant.

BENJAMIN C. DAWKINS, Jr., Chief Judge.

The single question presented by this action may be quickly resolved. It is: May the Louisiana Department of Highways (plaintiff), which granted a permit to United Gas Pipe Line Company (defendant), to construct a pipe line under and across a public highway, whereunder the company was required to bear the expense of any further work upon the pipe line necessitated by changes in the highway, require the company to pay the cost...

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