STATE, DEPARTMENT OF HIGHWAYS v. HAYDEL

No. 6598.

306 So.2d 836 (1975)

STATE of Louisiana, Through the DEPARTMENT OF HIGHWAYS v. Adam HAYDEL et al.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Fourth Circuit.

Rehearing Denied February 13, 1975.

Writ Refused April 18, 1975.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Johnie E. Branch, Jr., Baton Rouge, for plaintiff-appellee.

Jack C. Benjamin, Kierr, Gainsburgh, Benjamin, Fallon & Lewis, New Orleans, for defendants-appellants.

Before REDMANN, BOUTALL and BEER, JJ.


REDMANN, Judge.

This appeal in an expropriation suit seeks increases in awards for one portion of land taken and for improvements. The main argument is that a district court is bound to fix and award a square-foot land value identical to that the court of appeal awarded in two cases of adjacent tracts.

We reject this argument as an impermissible attribution to conclusions of fact the binding status of conclusions of law. Trial courts may be obliged (even in...

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