Board of Supervisors of Louisiana State University v. Bickham

PAUL A. BONIN, Judge.

11James Alderdice, the appellant, retained a vendor’s lien on immovable property sold on credit to the late Thelma Tate Bickham. The Board of Supervisors of Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College, however, instituted a quick-taking expropriation of the property against Mrs. Bickham’s heirs.1 Relying upon Article 1, § 4, of the Louisiana Constitution, Mr. Alderdice intervened in the expropriation proceedings in accordance with Sections 11 and 149 of Title 19 of the Louisiana Revised Statutes in order to demand a trial on the issue inter alia of…