Louisiana Highway Commission v. Hays' Heirs

LAND, Justice.

Plaintiff sues to expropriate, for a highway, contiguous tracts of land from various defendants in this suit.

Twenty of these cases were consolidated for trial both in the lower court and on appeal.

They were tried before a jury of freeholders of the parish of Plaquemines. After hearing all the evidence and arguments of counsel for relators and respondent, and receiving the charge of the court, the jury retired to deliberate and returned verdicts in each of the cases. The district judge rendered judgments in each of these cases in accordance with these verdicts, and, in his return…