EXXON PIPELINE CO. v. HILL

Nos. 2000-C-2535 and 2000-C-2559.

788 So.2d 1154 (2001)

EXXON PIPELINE COMPANY v. George HILL, Individually and as Trustee of the Mrs. Elizabeth J. Hill Trust for the Children of John Hill, Jr., et al. Exxon Pipeline Company v. Price LeBlanc, Shirley Wolf LeBlanc, and Simon Corporation of Louisiana.

Supreme Court of Louisiana.

May 15, 2001.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Gregory M. Anding, Gary A. Bezet, Robert E. Dille, Kean, Miller, Hawthorne, D'Armond, McCowa & Jarman, Baton Rouge, Counsel for Applicant in No. 2000-B-2559.

Pamela P. Baudin, Stanley P. Baudin, Baton Rouge, Patrick W. Pendley, Plaquemine, David M. Ellison, Jr., Baton Rouge, Penrose C. St. Amant, Gonzales, Counsel for Respondent in No. 2000-B-2559.

Carol Galloway, Baton Rouge, Mark A. Marionneaux, Baton Rouge, Counsel for Plantation Pipeline Co. (Amicus Curiae).

David L. Carrigee, New Orleans, Robin M. Hunziker, Counsel for Marathon Ashland Pipeline (Amicus Curiae).

Robert J. Young, Jr., New Orleans, Robert J. Young, III, New Orleans, Counsel for Koch Pipeline Co. (Amicus Curiae).

Allen D. Darden, Baton Rouge, Kimberly L. Hood, Counsel for MCI Worldcom Network Services Inc. (Amicus Curiae).

A. J. Gray, III, Anna R. Gray, Lake Charles, Counsel for Stream Family Limited Partnership, Michael X. St. Martin, Virginia R. St. Martin, Sue Mary Granger (Amicus Curiae).

Davis B. Allgood, Leon Gary, Jr., Robert W. Scheffy, Jr., Jones, Walker, Waechter, Poitevant, Carrere & Denegre, Baton Rouge, Counsel for Applicant in No. 2000-C-2535.

David M. Ellison, Jr., Baton Rouge, Counsel for Respondent in No. 2000-C-2535.

Kenneth P. Carter, New Orleans, Counsel for Entergy Louisiana, Inc., Entergy Gulf States, Inc. (Amicus Curiae).

Galen S. Brown, New Orleans, Counsel for Williams Co. Inc., Transcontinental Gas Pipe Line Corp., Williams Gas Pipelines Central Inc., Texas Gas Transmission Corp., El Paso Energy Corp. (Amicus Curiae).

Robert H. Carpenter, Jr., Baton Rouge, E. Kay Kilpatrick, Roy A. Mongrue, Jr., Baton Rouge, Richard P. Ieyoub, Baton Rouge, Counsel for State of Louisiana (Amicus Curiae).

Henry H. Bernard, Jr., Baton Rouge, Patrick M. McCarthy, Counsel for Louisiana Farm Bureau Federation (Amicus Curiae).


TRAYLOR, Justice.

We granted certiorari in these two expropriation cases and consolidated them for oral argument in order to clarify the issue of what is the proper method of determining "just compensation" in an expropriation suit. Specifically, we are called upon to answer the following questions: (1) whether the traditional method of valuing properties by using property comparables is the proper means by which to determine just compensation for a landowner whose...

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