CYPRESS-BLACK BAYOU REC. & W. CON. DIST. v. MERRITT

No. 11822.

260 So.2d 159 (1972)

CYPRESS-BLACK BAYOU RECREATION & WATER CONSERVATION DISTRICT, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Walter Grady MERRITT, Defendant-Appellant.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Second Circuit.

March 28, 1972.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lunn, Irion, Switzer, Johnson & Salley by Harry A. Johnson, Jr., Shreveport, for defendant-appellant.

Billy R. Robinson, Bossier City, for plaintiff-appellee.

Before BOLIN, HEARD and HALL, JJ.


HALL, Judge.

In this expropriation suit brought in connection with the construction of the Cypress-Black Bayou Reservoir, Site #1, in Bossier Parish, the district court awarded defendant $6,452.50 as compensation for 25.85 acres taken in full ownership, $154 for a flowage servitude on a 7.7 acre tract and $2,520 as severance damages to defendant's remaining property. Defendant appealed, taking issue only with the amount...

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