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HANKS v. GULF STATES UTILITIES COMPANY

No. 49349.

221 So.2d 249 (1969)

253 La. 946

Nelson HANKS et al., d/b/a The Hanks Company v. GULF STATES UTILITIES COMPANY.

Supreme Court of Louisiana.

March 31, 1969.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Oliver P. Stockwell, Stockwell, St. Dizier, Sievert & Viccellio, Lake Charles, W. C. Hollier, Bailey & Mouton, Lafayette, for defendant-relator.

Mouton, Beard, Plaisance & Franques, Caliste Beard, Jr., Lafayette, for plaintiffs-appellees.

Wilkinson, Woods, Carmody, Meadows & Hall, Shreveport, Landry, Watkins, Cousin & Bonin, New Iberia, Monroe & Lemann, New Orleans, Davidson, Meaux, Onebane & Donohoe, Lafayette, Theo F. Cangelosi, John Schwab, Robert L. Cangelosi, Baton Rouge, B. R. Dickerson, Shreveport, Wiley G. Lastrapes, Daniel P. Hurley, New Orleans, for amici curiae.

BARHAM, Justice.

A Third Circuit Court of Appeal judgment affirmed the trial court's award of $5000.00 in damages based upon a holding that Gulf States Utilities Company, which had acquired a servitude over the plaintiffs' land in 1949, had trespassed upon the property of the plaintiffs in 1962 by modification of the supporting structure of an electric power line. 210 So.2d 345.

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