MARATHON PIPE LINE CO. v. PITCHER

No. 62768.

368 So.2d 994 (1979)

MARATHON PIPE LINE COMPANY v. Mrs. Charlie Holcombe PITCHER.

Supreme Court of Louisiana.

Rehearing Denied April 9, 1979.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ashton L. Stewart, Stewart & Preis, Baton Rouge, for defendant-applicant.

Thomas R. Blum, Ralph L. Kaskell, Jr., Deutsch, Kerrigan & Stiles, New Orleans, for plaintiff-respondent.


SUMMERS, Chief Justice.*

Marathon Pipe Line Co. instituted this expropriation proceeding to obtain a 20-foot permanent servitude for a petroleum pipeline along a pipeline corridor in East Baton Rouge Parish. Defendant Charlie Holcombe Pitcher, who owns property which the pipeline will traverse, resisted the taking. She contends that Sections 1-14 of Title 19 and Sections 251-254 of Title 45 of the Revised Statutes, under which plaintiff...

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