City of Westwego v. Marrero Land & Imp. Ass'n

MOISE, Justice.

This is an expropriation suit instituted by the City of Westwego against both Marrero ' Land and Improvement Association, Ltd., as record owner of a certain parcel of land, and M'r. and Mrs. Eves Este, as claimants under an agreement to purchase, recorded in the conveyance records of the Parish of Jefferson, in Book 309, folio 318. Harry A. Pitre, the owner of land in the vicinity of the property sought to be expropriated, intervened, opposing the expropriation of the subject parcel of land (for the purpose of erecting a water tower) on grounds set out infra. There was judgment…