STATE v. GRAND CONSISTORY, ETC.

No. 43807.

112 So.2d 692 (1959)

237 La. 1005

STATE of Louisiana Through the Department of Highways, v. GRAND CONSISTORY OF THE THIRTY-SECOND DEGREE OF THE ANCIENT AND ACCEPTED RITE OF MASONRY for the State of Louisiana, Under the Jurisdiction of the Council of the Thirty-Third Degree for the Southern Jurisdiction of the United States of America.

Supreme Court of Louisiana.

June 1, 1959.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

W. Crosby Pegues, Jr., D. Ross Banister, Baton Rouge, Howard W. Lenfant, New Orleans, for plaintiff-appellant.

Benjamin Y. Wolf, Siegfried B. Christensen, Benjamin Washastrom, Julius C. Pearlstine, Joseph Rosenberg, Luke Cutrera, P. B. Habans, David Gertler, Martin E. Kranz, R. A. Dowling, Lawrence Hennessey, Jr., New Orleans, for defendant-appellee.


HAWTHORNE, Justice.

This is an appeal by the State of Louisiana through the Department of Highways from a judgment of the district court fixing the value of certain property expropriated by it for the purpose of erecting an approach to the new Mississippi River Bridge in New Orleans, and the principal issue presented to this court is the value of the property expropriated. The trial judge found that the property had a market value of $323,837 and awarded this amount...

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