LOUISIANA POWER & LIGHT COMPANY v. CHURCHILL FARMS, INC.,

No. 53600.

292 So.2d 183 (1974)

LOUISIANA POWER & LIGHT COMPANY, Plaintiff-Appellant-Respondent, v. CHURCHILL FARMS, INC., Defendant-Appellee-Relator.

Supreme Court of Louisiana.

Rehearings Denied March 22, 1974.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Cecil M. Burglass, Jr., New Orleans, for defendant-applicant.

Andrew P. Carter, Melvin I. Schwartzman, Eugene G. Taggart, H. Sloan McCloskey, Monroe & Lemann, New Orleans, for plaintiff-respondent.


TATE, Justice.

Louisiana Power sues to expropriate a 150-foot-wide right of way 8000-odd-feet in length over Churchill Farms' property. The right of way is to be used to construct two sets of 230,000-volt electric transmission lines, with the 150-feet high steel and concrete towers in each spaced every 300 feet. Each set of towers, each containing two 230,000-volt lines, will parallel each other at a distance of 50 feet, each being 50 feet from an edge of the right...

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