CENTRAL LOUISIANA ELECTRIC COMPANY v. BROOKS

No. 2057.

201 So.2d 679 (1967)

CENTRAL LOUISIANA ELECTRIC COMPANY, Inc., Plaintiff-Appellee, v. James E. BROOKS, Defendant-Appellant.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Third Circuit.

Rehearing Denied September 6, 1967.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Polk & Foote, William P. Polk, Alexandria, for defendant-appellant.

Provosty, Sadler & Scott, by Nauman S. Scott, Alexandria, for plaintiff-appellee.

Before TATE, FRUGE and HOOD, JJ.


FRUGÉ, Judge.

By this expropriation suit Central Louisiana Electric Company, Inc. (Cleco) seeks to condemn a servitude across defendant's prime agricultural land for the construction of two side-by-side electric transmission lines. The district court granted the plaintiff's demand for the servitude, fixing the landowner's compensation at 75% of the acreage embraced by the servitude and 15% severance damages to the remainder of the landowner's 114 acre tract....

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