Southwestern Electric Power Co. v. McCaskill

AYRES, Judge.

This is an expropriation proceeding, a companion case to that of Southwestern Electric Power Company v. Lewis P. Conger et ux, La.App., 307 So.2d 380, with which it was consolidated, as a matter of convenience, for argument in this court. From a judgment in plaintiff’s favor authorizing the expropriation and fixing of an award of compensation for the rights and property taken, defendant appealed.

The basic issues, such as the authority of plaintiff to maintain this action and the necessity for the taking, were resolved adversely to this defendant’s position in the Conger case.…