Legal Opinion
Louisiana Highway Commission v. Guidry
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Decided January 3, 1933No. Nos. 31385, 31426PublishedCited by 57 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtOdom, J.
These are suits brought by the Louisiana highway commission for the purpose of ac quiring, by expropriation, a right of way 150 feet wide across the plantations of these defendants for a state highway ¿nown as the “xlir Line Road,” which connects Baton Rouge and New Orleans. The cases were tried separately in the lower court, but were consolidated for the purpose of argument in this court. We shall consider them together for the reason that the issues in each are the same, the plantations lie adjacent to each other, the same witnesses were called in each case (or practically the same ones),…
2Cases cited9 opinions
- Louisiana Ry. & Navigation Co. v. MorereSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1906
- Louisiana Highway Commission v. BoudreauxLouisiana Court of Appeal · 1932
- Louisiana Ry. & Navigation Co. v. SarpySupreme Court of Louisiana · 1910
- Shreveport & Red River Valley Railway Co. v. HindsSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1898
- Payne v. Morgan's Louisiana & Texas Railroad & SteamshipSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1886
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3Cited by57 opinions
- Texas Pipe Line Company v. BarbeSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1956
- Westwego Canal & Terminal Co. v. Louisiana Highway CommissionSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1942
- Louisiana Highway Commission v. GreySupreme Court of Louisiana · 1941
- West Jefferson Levee D. v. Coast QualitySupreme Court of Louisiana · 1994
- Central La. El. Co. v. Covington & St. Tammany L. & I. Co.Louisiana Court of Appeal · 1961
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