Hornsby v. State Department of Highways

HAMITER, Justice.

The instant action is one of several companion cases which grew out of an appropriation by the Department of Highways of the State of Louisiana, the defendant herein, of certain lands in Rapides Parish for the purpose of constructing a roadway along and outside the re-located *872levee which borders Red River, a navigable stream.

Mrs. Willie Hudson Hornsby, a plaintiff in the present suit, owns a tract of land fronting on Red River; and in 1946 a strip of her property, containing .101 acres, was taken for the mentioned roadway. Malcolm T. Hornsby, the other plaintiff herein,…