BURAS v. UNITED GAS PIPE LINE COMPANY

No. 21614.

127 So.2d 271 (1961)

Paul Peter BURAS v. UNITED GAS PIPE LINE COMPANY et al.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Fourth Circuit.

Rehearing Denied March 13, 1961.

Certiorari Denied April 25, 1961.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Max Zelden and Sam Monk Zelden, New Orleans, for Paul Peter Buras, plaintiff, appellee-appellant.

Jones, Walker, Waechter, Poitevent, Carrere & Denegre, Ernest A. Carrere, Jr., New Orleans, for United Gas Pipe Line Co., defendant, appellee.

Chaffe, McCall, Phillips, Burke & Hopkins, New Orleans, for Louisiana Fruit Co., defendant, appellant-appellee.

Before JANVIER, REGAN and YARRUT, JJ.


YARRUT, Judge.

Plaintiff sues United Gas Pipe Line Company and the Louisiana Fruit Company, jointly and severally, for $13,500, damages for trespass upon his land in Plaquemines Parish by laying a gas transmission pipe line diagonally across his property in a trench, 50 feet wide by 10 feet deep. The amount is made up of $7,000 for loss of revenue from muskrat trapping for two years prior to the date of suit; and $6,500 for inconvenience and interference with petitioner...

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