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STATE, DEPARTMENT OF HIGHWAYS v. WILLIAMS

No. 11014.

210 So.2d 616 (1968)

STATE of Louisiana, Through the DEPARTMENT OF HIGHWAYS, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Edward W. WILLIAMS, Defendant-Appellee.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Second Circuit.

April 30, 1968.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Marshall W. Wroten, Baton Rouge, for plaintiff-appellant.

E. H. Lancaster, Jr., H. C. Sevier, Jr., Tallulah, for defendant-appellee.

Before BOLIN, PRICE and STEPHENS, JJ.

BOLIN, Judge.

Pursuant to LSA-R.S. 48:441 et seq. plaintiff expropriated 19.726 acres out of a 708-acre farm owned by defendant in Madison Parish for relocating U. S. Highway #65. The Department of Highways' appraisers estimated the value of the acreage taken to be $7,970, which sum was deposited in the registry of the court and withdrawn by defendant. It was stipulated the land taken had a value of $400 per acre or $7890.40. Following trial the lower court awarded...

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