STATE, DEPARTMENT OF HIGHWAYS v. ADAMS

No. 10543.

184 So.2d 744 (1966)

STATE of Louisiana Through the DEPARTMENT OF HIGHWAYS, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Mrs. Caroline M. ADAMS et al., Defendants-Appellees.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Second Circuit.

March 23, 1966.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

D. Ross Banister, Glenn S. Darsey, Ben C. Norgress and Marshall W. Wroten, Baton Rouge, for appellant.

Sevier, Yerger & Sevier, Lancaster, Baxter & Seale, Tallulah, for appellees.

Before HARDY, GLADNEY and AYRES, JJ.


AYRES, Judge.

By this action, instituted July 25, 1961, there was expropriated from defendants' 484-acre farm, located in Madison Parish four miles south of Tallulah, for the relocation of U. S. Highway 65, a strip of land 122.86 feet in width for a distance of 3438.28 feet and 120 feet in width for an additional distance of 3341.90 feet, containing 18.814 acres. Prior to the taking, defendants' land was rectangular in shape with its eastern boundary fronting the...

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