Louisiana Highway Commission v. Merchant

TALIAFERRO, Judge.

This is an expropriation suit wherein the Louisiana Highway Commission seeks to have adjudicated to it for highway right of way purposes a small tract of land of trapezium form, containing .31 of an acre, in the northwest corner of lot 3 of the partition of northwest of northwest 14 of section 12, township 4 north, range 1 west, containing 5 acres, all owned by defendant, and situated in Rapides parish.

The necessity for taking the land was challenged in answer, but that 'defense is now abandoned. The market value of the land sought and resultant damages, if taken, to the…