Columbia Gulf Transmission Co. v. Rosteet

LABORDE, Judge.

This is an appeal from an expropriation proceeding filed by Columbia Gulf Transmission Company against Paul M. Rosteet and his sister Eleanor Rosteet Hamilton.1 The District Court awarded defendant Paul R. Rosteet $7,230.00 as compensation for the land expropriated, reasoning that the highest and best use of the property taken was for pipeline rights-of-way purposes. We amend and affirm. We hold that the best evidence of the property’s market value is the sale price of similar properties.

The salient facts are: Columbia sought a pipeline right-of-way over and across land…