Tennessee Gas Transmission Co. v. Wyatt Lumber Co.

PONDER, Justice.

The plaintiff brought suit against the defendant seeking to expropriate a right of way across defendant’s property to be used for a pipe line for the transportation of natural gas and by-products. By pleas and exceptions, the defendant contested the plaintiff’s right to expropriate the property,, the necessity for the expropriation, the necessity of the quantity of land to be used, and attacked the constitutionality of the statute, Act 325 of 1948, LSA-R.S. 19:1,. 19:4 to 19:8, 19:10, under which the plaintiff was proceeding. The exceptions and pleas were overruled and, on…