STATE, DEPT. OF HWYS. v. LAMAR ADVERTISING COMPANY OF LOUISIANA, INC.,

No. 53148.

279 So.2d 671 (1973)

STATE of Louisiana, Through the DEPARTMENT OF HIGHWAYS, Plaintiff-Relator, v. LAMAR ADVERTISING COMPANY OF LOUISIANA, INC., et al., Defendants-Respondents.

Supreme Court of Louisiana.

June 11, 1973.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

D. Ross Banister, Jesse S. Moore, Jr., Johnie E. Branch, Jr., Alva Jones, Baton Rouge, for plaintiff-relator.

Sanders, Miller, Downing & Kean, R. Gordon Kean, Jr., Baton Rouge, Mellon, Cavanaugh & Due, Karl W. Cavanaugh, Denham Springs, for defendants-respondents.


TATE, Justice.

These proceedings involve seven suits filed by the plaintiff highway department against the defendant advertising-sign owners. In accordance with the Department's prayer, the defendants were ordered to show cause on a day set ten days later why they should not be enjoined from maintaining the signs and should not be ordered to remove them. Not joined as defendants were the owners of the land on which the signs were erected.

At the hearing, the...

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