STATE, DOTD v. WILLIAMSON

Nos. 91-C-2401, 91-C-2404.

597 So.2d 439 (1992)

STATE Of Louisiana, DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION AND DEVELOPMENT v. Nell Carter Ramage WILLIAMSON, et al.

Supreme Court of Louisiana.

April 20, 1992.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John Barkley Knight, Jr., Joe Hart Dixon, Jr., Arnold, Pettway, Dixon & Collier, for defendants-applicants.

Harvey Lee Hall, Charles E. Soileau, Bertrand & Soileau, for plaintiff-respondent.


MARCUS, Justice.*

The primary issue in this expropriation case is the reasonableness of the attorney fees.

In May of 1983, the Louisiana Department of Transportation and Development (DOTD), pursuant to La.R.S. 48:441, et seq., filed a petition to expropriate a narrow strip of vacant property running through the entirety of Franklin Parish in order to widen Louisiana Highway 15...

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