Louisiana Ry. & Navigation Co. v. Jones
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Appeal from Twenty-Fourth Judicial District Court, Parish of West Feliciana; Charles Kilbourne, Judge. Action by the Louisiana Railway & Navigation Company against H. W. Jones. From the judgment, plaintiff appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtProvosty, J.
The plaintiff railroad seeks to expropriate a right of way across defendant’s property, and appeals from a verdict allowing defendant $50 per acre for the property, and $845 of damages.
The damages are claimed on the theory that the land proposed to be taken is worth to defendant far more than its market value, owing to the fact that the situation of his business is such that he is compelled to live in that neighborhood, and that this is the only piece of land available to him as a site for a home. Defendant’s land is a tract of 16 to 18 acres situated in the parish of West Feliciana, near…
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