Lacaze v. State, Department of Transportation & Development

KING, Judge.

The sole issue presented by this appeal is whether or not the trial court was correct in rescinding an act of sale for fraud and/or misrepresentation.

J.C. LaCaze and his wife, Ernestine Bre-ville LaCaze, (hereinafter the LaCazes) the owners of land in Natchitoches Parish, Louisiana, conveyed the ownership of a 23.-715 strip of their land to the State of Louisiana, Department of Transportation and Development (hereinafter the State), for the construction of Interstate Highway 49. The act of sale recited that the consideration paid was $22,529.00 and that it was for the property…