CENTRAL LOUISIANA ELECTRIC COMPANY v. FONTENOT

No. 1025.

159 So.2d 738 (1964)

CENTRAL LOUISIANA ELECTRIC COMPANY, Inc., Plaintiff and Appellant, v. Percy J. FONTENOT, Defendant and Appellee.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Third Circuit.

Rehearing Denied February 6, 1964.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Landry, Watkins, Cousin & Bonin, by Jack J. Cousin, New Iberia, and Robert F. DeJean, Opelousas, for plaintiff-appellant.

Fusilier, Pucheu & Soileau by L. O. Fusilier, Ville Platte, for defendant-appellee.

Before CULPEPPER, TATE and HOOD, JJ.


HOOD, Judge.

This is an expropriation suit in which plaintiff seeks to obtain a right of way or servitude for the purpose of constructing an electric power transmission line over and across property owned by defendant. The only questions presented relate to the value of the property taken and the damage, if any, to the remainder of defendant's land.

After trial on the merits, the trial judge concluded that the tract taken had a value of $4,118.50, and that...

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