STATE, DEPARTMENT OF HIGHWAYS v. MORESI

No. 1760.

189 So.2d 292 (1966)

STATE of Louisiana, Through the DEPARTMENT OF HIGHWAYS, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Paul G. MORESI, Defendant-Appellee.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Third Circuit.

August 3, 1966.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

D. Ross Banister, Glenn S. Darsey, Brunswig Sholars, Ben C. Norgress, Chester E. Martin, Robert Jones, Baton Rouge (Glenn S. Darsey, Baton Rouge, of counsel,) for plaintiff-appellant.

Broussard, Broussard, & Moresi, by Paul G. Moresi, Jr., Abbeville, for defendant-appellee.

Before TATE, HOOD, and CULPEPPER, JJ.


TATE, Judge.

This is an expropriation suit arising from a "quick-taking" for highway purposes under LSA-R.S. 48.441 et seq. The plaintiff Department appeals the trial court award as excessive. The defendant landowner answers the appeal to request an increase in the award and in the expert fees assessed as costs.

1. The Subject Property: Before and After the Taking.

The virtually undisputed evidence of both the Department's and the landowner...

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