Louisiana Highway Commission v. Grey

ODOM, Justice.

The defendant owns 172 acres of land in one tract, the southern edge of which is adjacent to the northern corporate limits of the City of Shreveport. The Louisiana Highway Commission brought this suit to acquire by expropriation a strip of this land, running diagonally across the tract, as a right-of-way for a state highway, which is to have two paved traffic lanes, each about 20 feet wide. The strip of land required is 4,434 feet long, is 190 feet wide at the south end, and 300 feet wide at the north end where it leaves defendant’s property. The right-of-way as surveyed takes…