STATE, DEPARTMENT OF HIGHWAYS v. YOUNG

No. 2657.

221 So.2d 73 (1969)

STATE of Louisiana, Through the DEPARTMENT OF HIGHWAYS, Plaintiff and Appellant, v. Oleus Sam YOUNG, Defendant and Appellee.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Third Circuit.

April 8, 1969.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

D. Ross Banister, Ben C. Norgress, William W. Irwin, Jr., Johnie E. Branch, by Johnie E. Branch, Jr., Baton Rouge, for plaintiff-appellant.

Guillory, Guillory & Guillory, by I. J. Guillory, Jr., Eunice, for defendant-appellee.

Before TATE, FRUGE and SAVOY, JJ.


SAVOY, Judge.

Plaintiff filed this expropriation suit against defendant in connection with a highway project which had for its purpose to widen U. S. Highway 190 so as to change it from a two-lane highway to a four-lane highway. This project was designated as the Savoy-Eunice Project in St. Landry Parish, Louisiana.

At the time of the taking defendant owned an irregular tract of land containing 79.475 acres located...

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