STATE, DOTD v. HELLENIC, INC.

Nos. CA 93 0870, CA 93 0871.

636 So.2d 1004 (1994)

STATE of Louisiana, DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION AND DEVELOPMENT v. HELLENIC, INC.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, First Circuit.

Rehearing Denied May 18, 1994.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert T. Talley and Frederick Fuselier, Asst. General Counsel, Robert L. Ledoux, Sp. Asst. General Counsel, Baton Rouge, James J. Adams and D.S. "Terry" Fitzgerald, Jr., Lafayette, for plaintiff D.O.T.D.

Randall A. Smith and Phillip A. Wittmann, New Orleans, John E. Coleman, Jr., Franklin, for defendant-appellant Hellenic, Inc.

Before FOIL, PITCHER and PARRO, JJ.


FOIL, Judge.

In these expropriation proceedings, we are asked to determine the proper date from which interest on an award of compensation is to be calculated. In two of the expropriation proceedings before it, the trial court awarded interest from the date the landowner filed answers seeking an increase in the amount of compensation filed into the registry of the court. We hold that the trial court erred in refusing to award interest on the excess awards from the...

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