Cox v. Department of Highways

REID, Judge.

Plaintiff Mrs. Talita B. Cox filed this suit against the Department of Highways, State of Louisiana seeking to recover damages resulting from defendant’s breach of a contract with her over a right of way deed for the widening of Charity Street in the City of Abbeville, Louisiana. She claimed that the defendant was obligated to make certain alterations on her property which was to take ten feet off the front and add it to the rear.

Plaintiff’s chief complaint is that under her specific agreement in the right of way *312deed defendant was to cut off ten feet of the front of a building…