STATE v. DAVIS

No. 751.

149 So.2d 164 (1963)

STATE of Louisiana, through the DEPARTMENT OF HIGHWAYS, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Louise Kaufman DAVIS et al., Defendants-Appellants.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Third Circuit.

January 28, 1963.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Kaufman, Anderson, Leithead, Scott & Boudreau, by Norman F. Anderson and Everett Scott, Jr., Lake Charles, for defendants-appellants.

D. Ross Banister, Glenn S. Darsey, Brunswig Sholars, Braxton B. Croom, Chester E. Martin, by Brunswig Sholars, Baton Rouge, for plaintiff-appellee.

Before TATE, HOOD, and CULPEPPER, JJ.


TATE, Judge.

By two separate proceedings involving the same 211-acre tract owned by the defendant landowners, the plaintiff Department expropriated: (a) An 18.8-acre strip in fee, to be used in the construction of the controlled-access Interstate Highway; (b) A servitude for borrow pit purposes on a 67.99-acre tract situated within the interior of the defendants' property.

The present suit arises out of the former taking. A companion suit of the same title...

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