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STATE EX REL. DEPARTMENT OF HIGHWAYS v. MARTIN

No. 2451.

215 So.2d 142 (1968)

STATE of Louisiana, Through the DEPARTMENT OF HIGHWAYS, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Leo MARTIN, Defendant-Appellee.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Third Circuit.

October 31, 1968.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

W. Crosby Pegues, Jr., Glenn S. Darsey, Brunswig Sholars, Jesse S. Moore, Jr., by Johnie Branch, Jr., Baton Rouge, and Fournet & Adams, by Robert J. Adams, Lafayette, for plaintiff-appellant.

Mouton, Roy, Carmouche & Hailey, by H. Purvis Carmouche, Jr., Lafayette, for defendant-appellee.

Before TATE, SAVOY, and CULPEPPER, JJ.

TATE, Judge.

This is an expropriation suit. The sole issue of this appeal is the market value of the land taken for highway purposes. The plaintiff Department appeals the award as excessive.

By the taking, some 13½ acres were expropriated from the defendant Martin's 45-acre tract. The taking included the land's entire western road frontage, as well as a strip across the entire northern part of the tract including...

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