NEW ORLEANS REDEV. AUTH. v. STROUGHTER

No. 2003-CA-1085.

861 So.2d 940 (2003)

NEW ORLEANS REDEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY v. Frances Collins STROUGHTER, Individually and through Provisional Curator Adrian Stroughter; Estate of James W. Stroughter, through Administrator Joseph Neves Marcal, III; and the United States of America.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Fourth Circuit.

Rehearing Denied January 15, 2004.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Christopher Gobert, Cade, Collins & Gobert, New Orleans, LA, for Plaintiff/Appellee.

James E. Uschold, James E. Uschold, PLC, New Orleans, LA, for Defendant/Appellant.

(Court composed of Judge JOAN BERNARD ARMSTRONG, Judge CHARLES R. JONES, and Judge PATRICIA RIVET MURRAY).


PATRICIA RIVET MURRAY, Judge.

This is an expropriation proceeding. The primary issue before us is whether the trial court erred in denying the defendant-tax sale purchaser's request for attorney's fees pursuant to La. R.S. 19:201 based upon the plaintiff-expropriating authority's dismissal of the proceeding. Finding no error, we affirm.

FACTUAL AND PROCEDURAL BACKGROUND

The underlying facts of this case basically are undisputed. Since 1971, Frances...

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