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STATE, DEPARTMENT OF HIGHWAYS v. GENEST

No. 2487.

218 So.2d 114 (1968)

STATE of Louisiana, Through the DEPARTMENT OF HIGHWAYS, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Lionel GENEST et ux., Defendants-Appellants.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Third Circuit.

December 5, 1968.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William E. Logan, Jr., Lafayette, for defendants-appellants.

Johnie E. Branch, Jr., Baton Rouge, for plaintiff-appellee.

Before TATE, FRUGÉ, and SAVOY, JJ.

TATE, Judge.

The Department expropriated the defendants' land for highway purposes. The landowners' appeal urges that the trial court incorrectly failed to award severance damages. By its answer to the appeal, the Department contends that the award for the land taken is excessive.

Prior to the taking, the defendants owned a 17-acre1 tract fronting west on a two-lane blacktop highway. By the taking, a 7/10th-acre strip across the...

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