SOUTHWESTERN ELECTRIC POWER COMPANY v. STINSON

No. 11727.

256 So.2d 674 (1972)

SOUTHWESTERN ELECTRIC POWER COMPANY, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Ford E. STINSON, Defendant-Appellant.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Second Circuit.

Rehearing Denied February 1, 1972.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ford E. Stinson, pro se.

Wilkinson, Woods, Carmody, Meadows & Hall by Arthur R. Carmody, Jr., Shreveport, Wallace, Bigby & Wallace by Walter, O. Bigby, Bossier City, for plaintiff-appellee.

Before BOLIN, PRICE and HEARD, JJ.


En Banc. Rehearing Denied February 1, 1972.

PRICE, Judge.

Under the provisions of LSA-R.S. 19:2, et seq., plaintiff seeks to expropriate a servitude for an electric power transmission line across two tracts of land owned by defendant in Bossier Parish. Defendant contests the necessity for this project in the carrying out of plaintiff's objective as a public utility company, and contends plaintiff abused the discretion vested in it by law in selecting the route...

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