Recreation & Park Commission for the Parish of East Baton Rouge v. Cobb

LOTTINGER, Judge.

This is an expropriation suit filed by petitioner seeking to acquire a total of six acres of land to be used as a neighborhood park. 3.82 acres of the expropriated tract belong to Mrs. Pearl Strain Brous-sard. A 2.18 acre tract belongs to Clifford Cobb. The two suits were consolidated for trial, however, Broussard has not filed an appeal, and we are now concerned only with the expropriation of the tract belonging to Mr. Cobb.

The record discloses that prior to the filing of the two lawsuits, the petitioner’s appraisers appraised the six acres as one tract and valued it at…