MID-LOUISIANA GAS COMPANY v. SANCHEZ

Nos. 5324-5332.

280 So.2d 406 (1973)

MID-LOUISIANA GAS COMPANY v. John E. SANCHEZ et al. MID-LOUISIANA GAS COMPANY v. Minerva P. BRIGNAC. MID-LOUISIANA GAS COMPANY v. Edward MARTIN et al. MID-LOUISIANA GAS COMPANY v. Earl J. MARTIN. MID-LOUISIANA GAS COMPANY v. Harry M. MARTIN. MID-LOUISIANA GAS COMPANY v. Louis MARTIN. MID-LOUISIANA GAS COMPANY v. Amilcar POLLET et al. MID-LOUISIANA GAS COMPANY v. Dorrel POCHE et al. MID-LOUISIANA GAS COMPANY v. Michel MARTIN, Jr., et al.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Fourth Circuit.

Rehearings Denied July 3, 1973.

Writs Refused September 7, 1973.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Vernon W. Woods, Patrick H. Baker, New Orleans, and Martin, Himel & Peytavin, Lutcher, for plaintiff-appellee.

Leach, Grossel-Rossi & Paysse, F. A. Courtenay, Jr., and Monroe & Lemann, Eugene G. Taggart, New Orleans, for defendants-appellants.

Before REDMANN, LEMMON and GULOTTA, JJ.


GULOTTA, Judge.

These are consolidated suits for the expropriation of subsurface strata1 for the underground storage of offsite natural gas. The subsurface area in the consolidated cases before us comprises 92 acres of a total 616.80 acres. No surface area is to be taken. From a judgment ordering the expropriation2 and the payment of the sum of $80.00 per acre, the defendant landowners appeal.

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