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LAKE, INC. v. LOUISIANA POWER & LIGHT COMPANY

No. 57085.

330 So.2d 914 (1976)

LAKE, INC. v. LOUISIANA POWER & LIGHT COMPANY.

Supreme Court of Louisiana.

Rehearing Denied May 14, 1976.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lamar M. Richardson, Jr., Ponder & Richardson, Metairie, for plaintiff-applicant.

Andrew P. Carter, Eugene G. Taggart, J. Wayne Anderson, Kenneth P. Carter, Monroe & Lemann, New Orleans, for defendant-respondent.

DIXON, Justice.

This case puts at issue the validity of the "St. Julien" doctrine, a judicially created method of acquisition of servitudes or rights-of-way by corporations possessing the power of expropriation.

Lake, Inc. purchased the lots involved (Lots 15 and 16, Square 14, Westwego Heights Subdivision, Parish of Jefferson) at tax sale in 1961, and obtained a judgment of confirmation in May of 1971. In 1972 Lake filed this action against Louisiana...

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