STATE, DEPT. OF HIGHWAYS v. VERMILION DEVELOP. CO.

Nos. 50615, 50617.

249 So.2d 167 (1971)

258 La. 1159

STATE of Louisiana, Through the DEPARTMENT OF HIGHWAYS v. VERMILION DEVELOPMENT COMPANY, Inc. STATE of Louisiana, Through the DEPARTMENT OF HIGHWAYS v. Charles A. PATOUT et al.

Supreme Court of Louisiana.

Rehearing Denied June 28, 1971.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

D. Ross Banister, Chester E. Martin, Johnie E. Branch, Jr., Baton Rouge, for plaintiff-appellant.

Smith & Stansbury, Lafayette, and John M. Sherrill, III, Alexandria, Frank Smith, Jr., Lafayette, for defendants-appellees.

Barranger, Barranger & Jones, William J. Jones, Jr., Covington, Duplantier & McPherson, Adrian G. Duplantier, Farris, Ellis, Cutrone, Gilmore & Lautenschlaeger, Camille A. Cutrone, New Orleans, Benton & Moseley, Edward Donald Moseley, Baton Rouge, Theus, Grisham, Davis & Leigh, Robert Lee Curry, III, Monroe, for amicus curiae.


DIXON, Justice.

The State Department of Highways expropriated various tracts of land belonging to defendants. The defendants are a corporation and the three individuals who owned the stock in the corporation. Two of these individuals operated as a partnership in developing real estate. The third managed the development corporation for the other two. The land involved in the expropriation all lies within newly developed residential subdivision property, or within tracts...

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