STATE v. YAWN

No. 49.

127 So.2d 545 (1961)

STATE of Louisiana, Through the DEPARTMENT of HIGHWAYS, Plaintiff-Appellee. v. Jack H. YAWN, Defendant-Appellant.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Third Circuit.

March 6, 1961.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Liskow & Bond, by George W. Liskow, Lake Charles, for defendant-appellant.

Norman L. Sisson, Baton Rouge, for plaintiff-appellee.

Before TATE, FRUGE and HOOD, JJ.


TATE, Judge.

This is an expropriation suit brought by the State Department of Highways. The defendant landowner's appeal and the plaintiff department's answer to the appeal question solely the amount of the award as being, respectively, either too low or too high.

The Department expropriated for highway purposes approximately 7.5 acres through defendant's property, cutting it into two tracts; a narrow strip containing about 1.6 acres, on the south of the new...

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