GULF STATES UTILITIES COMPANY v. HATCHER

No. 6574.

184 So.2d 326 (1966)

GULF STATES UTILITIES COMPANY, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Edna HATCHER et al., Defendants-Appellees.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, First Circuit.

Rehearing Denied April 4, 1966.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

F. W. Middleton, Jr., of Taylor, Porter, Brooks, Fuller & Phillips, Baton Rouge, for appellant.

R. H. Kilbourne, Clinton, for appellees.

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


ELLIS, Judge.

On January 22, 1965, Gulf States Utilities Company filed a petition for expropriation against the defendants Edna T. Hatcher and Zach E. Hatcher, as the usufructuary and owner of a certain tract of land in East Feliciana Parish containing some 516.82 acres. Plaintiff seeks to expropriate as servitude 170 feet in width and extending a distance of 4276 feet across defendants' land for the purpose of construing a high voltage electric transmission line...

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