State, Department of Transportation & Development v. Louisiana-Arkansas Railway Co.

h WRIT GRANTED AND MADE PEREMPTORY.

The plaintiff-relator, the State of Louisiana through the Department of Transportation and Development, seeks supervisory relief from a ruling of the Ninth Judicial District Court, Rapides Parish, the Honorable George C. Metoyer, Jr., presiding, granting the defendants’ motions in limine.

This litigation arises out of the expropriation of the defendants’ property by the relator to build a section of Interstate 49. After appraising the property, the relator expropriated it in 1990 by depositing $137,232.00 with *823the court. After conducting their own appraisals,…