State, Department of Transportation & Development v. Saxon

DENNIS, Justice.*

The question of procedural law presented by this expropriation case is whether the sixty day period for perfecting a devolutive appeal begins to run on the date the judgment is signed or on the expiration of the delay for applying for a new trial. The court of appeal dismissed as untimely the appeal filed by the DOTD sixty-seven days after the judgment was signed by the trial court, holding that the sixty day period for taking a devolutive appeal in an expropriation case begins to run on the date the judgment is signed and, implicitly, that the new trial procedure is…