STATE, DEPT. OF TRANSP. & DEVELOP. v. MARTIN

No. 85-952.

491 So.2d 818 (1986)

STATE of Louisiana, DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION & DEVELOPMENT, Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. Paul Joseph MARTIN & Ruby Martin, Defendants-Appellants.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Third Circuit.

July 23, 1986.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ernest L. Parker of Bean and Parker, Lafayette, for defendants-appellants.

James C. Russell, Jr., and Jo A. Fleming, Baton Rouge, for plaintiffs-appellees.

Before DOMENGEAUX, DOUCET and YELVERTON, JJ.


YELVERTON, Judge.

Paul Martin and his wife, Ruby Martin, appeal the amount of compensation awarded them following the expropriation of a strip of their property in Lafayette, Louisiana, for the widening of Moss Street. Finding no error in the trial court determination of the value of the land taken, we affirm.

The State, through the Department of Transportation & Development (DOTD), acting pursuant to La.R.S. 48:441-460, in 1979 sued the Martins to expropriate...

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