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STATE v. GIVENS

No. 9426.

129 So.2d 468 (1961)

STATE of Louisiana, through the DEPARTMENT OF HIGHWAYS, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. C. L. GIVENS, Sr., et al., Defendant-Appellees.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Second Circuit.

Rehearing Denied April 12, 1961.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

D. Ross Banister, Glenn S. Darsey, Braxton B. Croom, Ben C. Norgress and Chester E. Martin, by Braxton B. Croom, Baton Rouge, for appellant.

Madison, Madison, Files & Shell, by James Madison, Bastrop, for appellees.

Before GLADNEY, AYRES and BOLIN, JJ.

BOLIN, Judge.

This appeal presents the sole question of the proper award to be made to the defendant for his property which was expropriated by plaintiff for the construction of a highway. The parcel of land so taken was approximately eighty-one feet by sixty-one feet, and was located within the corporate limits of Bastrop, and after the taking, the defendant retained a strip of land approximately eighty feet by fifty-nine feet. There were no improvements on the property...

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