Louisiana Power & Light Co. v. United Lands Co.

BARHAM, Justice.

We granted writs to review the Court of Appeal decisions which affirmed the trial court judgments granting servitudes by expropriation to the plaintiff over the lands of the several defendants and awarding compensation for the servitude but denying severance damages.1

The Court of Appeal’s opinion, 218 So.2d 905, 906, describes the servitude and the lands involved as follows:

“In these consolidated matters, Louisiana Power and Light Company seeks to expro-' priate a servitude two hundred feet in width across lands of defendants for the erection, maintenance and operation of a…