State ex rel. Department of Highways v. Grand Consistory of the Thirty-Second Degree of the Ancient & Accepted Rite of Masonry ex rel. State

HAWTHORNE, Justice.

This is an appeal by the State of Louisiana through the Department of Highways from a judgment of the district court fixing the value of certain property expropriated by it for the purpose of erecting an approach to the new Mississippi River Bridge in New Orleans, and the principal issue presented to this court is the value of the property expropriated. The trial judge found that the property had a market value of $323,837 and awarded this amount to the defendant owner, Grand Consistory of the Thirty-Second Degree of the Ancient and Accepted Rite of Masonry for the State of…