State, Department of Highways v. Metropolitan Life Insurance Co.

AYRES, Judge.

By this action the State of Louisiana, through the Department of Highways, expropriated immovable property owned by the named defendant and leased to the defendant, Arkansas Fuel Oil Corporation, now, by amendment of charter, the Cities Service Oil Company. The expropriation was made necessary by right-of-way requirements in connection with a proposed construction of an underpass beneath Missouri Pacific railroad tracks on South Second Street, a segment of State Highway-15 as it traverses the City of Monroe.. Alleging that the property taken had a value of $20,000.00, the State…