STATE, DEPT. OF TRANSP. v. SAXON

No. 86-C-1029.

500 So.2d 379 (1987)

STATE of Louisiana, DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION AND DEVELOPMENT v. Toni Allen SAXON, et al.

Supreme Court of Louisiana.

Rehearing Denied February 12, 1987.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Norman L. Sisson, Bernard L. Malone, Jr., Robert J. Adams, Fournet & Adams, for applicant.

S. Alfred Adams, Carruth and Cooper, for respondents.


DENNIS, Justice.*

The question of procedural law presented by this expropriation case is whether the sixty day period for perfecting a devolutive appeal begins to run on the date the judgment is signed or on the expiration of the delay for applying for a new trial. The court of appeal dismissed as untimely the appeal filed by the DOTD sixty-seven days after the judgment was signed by the trial court, holding that the sixty day period for...

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