LOUISIANA POWER AND LIGHT COMPANY v. GAUPP

No. 49838.

232 So.2d 273 (1970)

255 La. 563

LOUISIANA POWER AND LIGHT COMPANY v. Dr. Myles K. GAUPP. LOUISIANA POWER AND LIGHT COMPANY v. William A. ELFER. LOUISIANA POWER AND LIGHT COMPANY v. George A. LASSEIGNE, Jr., et al. LOUISIANA POWER AND LIGHT COMPANY v. Kathryn C. BRIEDE, wife of/and Dr. Benjamine Cromwell GORE. LOUISIANA POWER AND LIGHT COMPANY v. Alfred W. BROWN.

Supreme Court of Louisiana.

January 20, 1970.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Vial, Vial & Lemmon, Harry T. Lemmon, Hahnville, Monroe & Lemann, Andrew P. Carter, Melvin I. Schwartzman, Eugene G. Taggart and W. Malcolm Stevenson, New Orleans, for appellant.

Talley, Anthony, Hughes & Knight, Richard F. Knight, Bogalusa, Charles S. Lagarde, Jr., Luling, Sydney J. Parlongue, F. Irvin Dymond, New Orleans, Ralph Miller, for appellees.


BARHAM, Justice.

Ten expropriation cases were originally consolidated for trial, these five were appealed by the plaintiff, and we granted writs on the application of the plaintiff, Louisiana Power and Light Company, and consolidated the five cases for argument. The relator complains that the award of just compensation in each of the cases is excessive, and that the award of severance damages upon one tract of land in one of the cases is excessive. These awards made...

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