State ex rel. Department of Highways v. Busch

SAVOY, Judge.

Plaintiff has appealed a judgment rendered by the district court.

This is an expropriation case in which the subject property is located in Lafayette Parish, Louisiana, the taking of which was • for the purpose of constructing a state highway.

Plaintiff deposited the sum of $24,000.00 for the property of the defendants which it expropriated. Prior to the expropriation, the property consisted of a single tract of land comprising approximately 15.4 acres. At the time of the taking, the property was devoted in part to truck garden operations with a portion of the land lying idle. The…