STATE EX REL. DEPARTMENT OF HIGHWAYS v. WOODWARD

No. 10012.

157 So.2d 597 (1963)

STATE of Louisiana, through the DEPARTMENT OF HIGHWAYS, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Cecil V. WOODWARD, Defendant-Appellant.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Second Circuit.

November 1, 1963.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Louis Lyons, Bossier City, for appellant.

D. Ross Banister, Glenn S. Darsey, Braxton E. Croom, Chester E. Martin, Baton Rouge, for appellee.

Before HARDY, GLADNEY and BOLIN, JJ.


HARDY, Judge.

This is an expropriation suit in which the plaintiff made total deposits of $1,950.00 for the taking of a tract of land of slightly less than one and one-half acres in connection with the construction of Interstate Highway I-20. Defendant claimed an increase in value to the sum of $5,250.00. After trial there was judgment in favor of defendant in the sum of $3,487.50, from which he has appealed. Plaintiff has answered the appeal, praying for a reduction...

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