City of Shreveport v. Jones

HAWTHORNE, Justice.

This is an appeal from a judgment expropriating a tract of land owned by the defendants near the City of Shreveport for the expansion of the city’s water treatment plant situated on Cross Lake. The right of expropriation is not contested; the sole issue is the value of the property taken. The lower court fixed its value at $8,-455, and defendants appealed.1

The land expropriated in this suit is just outside the northern corporate limits of the City of Shreveport, three and one-half miles from the business center of the city. It is adjacent to property owned by the city which…