State ex rel. Department of Highways v. Ponder

MILLER, Judge pro tem.

This suit arises out of an expropriation by the Louisiana Highway Department for an improvement consisting of a concrete, four-lane, non-access highway, with blacktop service roads on either side. From a judgment of the trial court in favor of defendants in the amount of $597.30 as additional compensation in excess of the $273.00 heretofore deposited in the registry of the court by the plaintiff, defendants have appealed.

The expropriated property is located two or three miles from the center of Poncha-toula, Louisiana, and several miles south of Hammond, Louisiana. The…