STATE, DEPARTMENT OF HIGHWAYS v. TUCKER

No. 47092.

170 So.2d 371 (1964)

247 La. 188

STATE of Louisiana, through the DEPARTMENT OF HIGHWAYS v. Heyward (Heywood) Simpson TUCKER et al.

Supreme Court of Louisiana.

Rehearing Denied January 18, 1965.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Love, Rigby, Donovan, Kenneth Rigby, Shreveport, for applicants.

T. K. Giddens, Jr., Smitherman, Smitherman, Purcell & Lunn, Gerald LeVan, Peters, Tuck & Ward, Hugh T. Ward, Shreveport, Chester E. Martin, Baton Rouge, Asst. to Gen. Counsel, Department of Highways, State of Louisiana, for defendants, intervenors, plaintiffs in reconvention, appellees and respondents.


SANDERS, Justice.

This is an expropriation proceeding, in which rival claimants seek the funds on deposit in the registry of the court. The State of Louisiana through the Department of Highways filed the action against the heirs of Anthony W. Tucker to expropriate a strip of land, formerly a railroad right of way, through Section 22, Township 17 North, Range 15 West, Caddo Parish, Louisiana. Deposited in the registry of the court was the sum of $7,209.00, representing...

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