LOUISIANA POWER AND LIGHT COMPANY v. LASSEIGNE

No. 3191.

220 So.2d 462 (1969)

LOUISIANA POWER AND LIGHT COMPANY v. George A. LASSEIGNE, Jr., et al.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Fourth Circuit.

Rehearing Denied April 7, 1969.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Vial, Vial & Lemmon, Harry T. Lemmon, Hahnville, Monroe & Lemann, Andrew P. Carter, Eugene G. Taggart, Chas. King Mallory, New Orleans, for plaintiff-appellee.

Becnel & Kliebert, Thomas J. Kliebert, Gramercy, for defendants-appellants.

Before SAMUEL, HALL and JOHNSON, JJ.


JOHNSON, Judge.

The main issue in this case is to determine whether the plaintiff, a public utility corporation, the holder and user of a right of way across the land of defendants since 1929, can acquire by expropriation a new right of way at a new location across the same tract of land and offset the value of the new right of way by the release and extinguishment of the old or existing right of way. After trial in the 29th Judicial District Court in St. John the...

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