State ex rel. Department of Highways v. Crockett

BOLIN, Judge.

Plaintiff expropriated property owned by defendants in the City of Shreveport. Being unable to agree on a price, the state deposited the sum of $22,000 (the value calculated by plaintiff’s appraisers) in the registry of the court and the case went to trial in order to judicially establish the just and adequate compensation due the landowners for the property thus taken. At *497the conclusion of the hearing, the district court made an award of $22,000 for the land and improvements, and defendants appealed to this court. After passing on several specific issues, we remanded the case in…