STATE, DEPT. OF HIGHWAYS v. ADVANCE ENTERPRISES, INC.,

No. 12913.

332 So.2d 899 (1976)

STATE of Louisiana, DEPARTMENT OF HIGHWAYS, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. ADVANCE ENTERPRISES, INC., Defendant-Appellee.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Second Circuit.

May 24, 1976.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

D. Ross Banister, William W. Irwin, Jr., Jerry F. Davis, Robert L. Ledoux, Johnie E. Branch, Jr., and Bernard L. Malone, Jr., Baton Rouge, Fruge & Vidrine by Jack C. Fruge, Sr., Ville Platte, for plaintiff-appellant.

Baker, Culpepper & Brunson, by Herman A. Castete, Jonesboro, for defendant-appellee.

Before PRICE, HALL, and JONES, JJ.


JONES, Judge.

The State of Louisiana, Department of Highways, (hereafter, Department,) expropriated a strip of land owned by Advance Enterprises, Inc. along U.S. Highway 167, known as the Jonesboro-Hodge Highway. The Department took 4,704 sq. ft., a srtip 9 to 11 feet in width along the front of the property of the 175,000 sq. ft. belonging to defendant. The property had been developed as a shopping center, the only one of its kind in the area.

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