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STATE v. WILLIAMS

No. 63.

131 So.2d 600 (1961)

STATE of Louisiana, Through DEPARTMENT OF HIGHWAYS, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Mrs. Lorraine Waschen WILLIAMS et al., Defendants-Appellees.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Third Circuit.

Rehearing Denied July 12, 1961.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

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

G. Allen Kimball, of Jones, Kimball, Harper, Tete & Wetherill, Lake Charles, Benckenstein & Benckenstein, Beaumont, Tex., for defendants-appellees.

Before TATE, FRUGE and SAVOY, JJ.

TATE, Judge.

In this expropriation suit, the trial court awarded the defendant landowners $23,093.39 for land taken and severance damages. The plaintiff Department appeals from the award as excessive, while by answer to the appeal the defendants pray that the award be increased.

Aside from a separated .011-acre tract stipulated to be worth $27.50, this expropriation concerns the taking, for the construction of the controlled-access Interstate Expressway and...

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