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STATE THROUGH DEPT. OF HIGHWAYS v. ELLENDER

No. 65030.

379 So.2d 1069 (1980)

STATE of Louisiana, Through the DEPARTMENT OF HIGHWAYS v. Wallace R. ELLENDER, Jr. STATE of Louisiana, Through the DEPARTMENT OF HIGHWAYS v. Vivian E. CHAMPAGNE et al.

Supreme Court of Louisiana.

January 28, 1980.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Bryan Miller, Asst. Gen. Counsel, State of La., through the Dept. of Highways, Baton Rouge, for plaintiff-respondent.

Thomas L. Wright, Ellender, Wright & Wurzlow, Houma, for defendants-applicants.

DIXON, Justice.

The defendants in this expropriation suit, Vivian E. Champagne and Wallace R. Ellender, Jr., are the owners of contiguous tracts of land in Terrebonne Parish. In addition, Ellender holds a recorded agricultural lease on the Champagne property. The state, through the Department of Highways (now known as the Department of Transportation and Development), expropriated portions of both pieces of property under the provisions of R.S. 48:441-60. Ellender...

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