STATE, DEPARTMENT OF HIGHWAYS v. BURDEN

No. 6476.

180 So.2d 784 (1965)

STATE of Louisiana, Through the DEPARTMENT OF HIGHWAYS, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. John C. BURDEN, Jr., et al., Defendants-Appellees.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, First Circuit.

Rehearing Denied December 21, 1965.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Philip K. Jones, Glenn S. Darsey, D. Ross Banister, Ben C. Norgress, Baton Rouge, for appellant.

Alvin B. Rubin and Robert A. Hawthorne, Jr., of Sanders, Miller, Downing, Rubin & Kean, Baton Rouge, for appellees.

Before ELLIS, LOTTINGER, LANDRY, REID and BAILES, JJ.


ELLIS, Judge.

This suit was instituted by the State of Louisiana, through the Department of Highways, September 24, 1963, for the expropriation of a parcel of land for a right of way for the St. Gabriel-Gardere Highway, in East Baton Rouge Parish, for highway purposes, in accordance with the authority conferred by Section 19.1 of Article VI of the Constitution of Louisiana and the provisions of R.S. Title 48:441-48:460.

Pursuant to the order of expropriation...

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