VALLEY ELEC. MEMBERSHIP CORP. v. DOWDEN

No. 7795.

386 So.2d 1090 (1980)

VALLEY ELECTRIC MEMBERSHIP CORP., INC., Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Teddie R. DOWDEN et ux., Defendant-Appellee.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Third Circuit.

July 30, 1980.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Whitehead & McCoy, Charles R. Whitehead, Jr., Natchitoches, for plaintiff-appellant.

James R. Mitchell, Leesville, for defendant-appellee.

Before DOMENGEAUX, GUIDRY and CUTRER, JJ.


DOMENGEAUX, Judge.

Just compensation for the taking of a servitude is the only issue to be resolved by the Court in this expropriation proceeding. The parties stipulated at the commencement of trial that the purpose of the taking is public and necessary and that the plaintiff has the legal right to expropriate. Louisiana Constitution of 1974, Article 1, Section 4; La.R.S. 19:2.

Plaintiff, Valley Electric Membership Corp. (VEMCO), seeks to expropriate a servitude...

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