STATE, DEPT. OF TRANSP. v. STONE

No. 96-CA-672.

692 So.2d 1241 (1997)

STATE of Louisiana, DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION AND DEVELOPMENT v. Saul STONE, et ux.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Fifth Circuit.

Writ Granted June 20, 1997.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Randall A. Smith, Smith, Jones & Fawer, L.L.P., New Orleans, Leon C. Vial, III, Hahnville, David L. Stone, Scott T. Whittaker, Stone, Pigman, Walther, Wittman & Hutchinson, LLP, New Orleans, for defendants-appellees.

Robert T. Talley, Office of General Counsel, Baton Rouge, Charles E. Soileau, Bertrand & Soileau, Rayne, for plaintiff-appellant.

Before GAUDIN, GOTHARD and DALEY, JJ.


GAUDIN, Judge.

This is an appeal by the State of Louisiana Department of Transportation and Development from a jury verdict in an expropriation case. The DOTD expropriated two parcels of land in St. Charles Parish under the quick-taking statute, LSA-R.S. 48:448. Following a five-day trial ending on December 15, 1995, the jury awarded $1,137,231.00 to Saul Stone, et ux, hereinafter sometimes called "Stone." The formal 29th Judicial District Court judgment was signed...

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