STATE, DEPARTMENT OF HIGHWAYS v. COCKERHAM

No. 6455.

182 So.2d 786 (1965)

STATE of Louisiana, Through the DEPARTMENT OF HIGHWAYS, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Waldo S. COCKERHAM et al., Defendants-Appellees.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, First Circuit.

Rehearing Denied January 24, 1966.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

J. Huntington Odom, Kennon, White & Odom, Baton Rouge, Daniel P. Hurley, New Orleans, Carlos G. Spaht, Kantrow, Spaht & Kleinpeter, Baton Rouge, for appellant.

J. Douglas Nesom, of Nesom & Mellon, Denham Springs, Brunswig Sholars, Philip K. Jones, D. Ross Banister, Norman L. Sisson, Baton Rouge, for Department of Highways.

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


BAILES, Judge.

Proceeding under the authority conferred upon it by the provisions of R.S. 48:441 et seq., the State of Louisiana, through the Department of Highways, brought this expropriation suit against defendant, Waldo S. Cockerham, as owner, and Texaco, Inc., and Flash Oil Corporation, as lessees, to condemn for highway purposes a certain tract of land in East Baton Rouge Parish. In accordance with a certificate of estimate of just compensation executed by two...

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