Westwego Canal & Terminal Co. v. Louisiana Highway Commission

ROGERS, Justice.

In a suit brought by the Westwego Canal & Terminal Company, Inc., against the Louisiana Highway Commission to recover $6,700 for the value of certain land appropriated by the defendant, the plaintiff recovered judgment in the district court for $200, with interest from judicial demand and all costs.

On appeal to this Court, the judgment was affirmed. See Westwego Canal & Terminal Co., Inc., v. Louisiana Highway Commission, 189 La. 870, 181 So. 429. Thereafter, plaintiff filed a rule in the district court to tax costs against the defendant in the sum of $257.33, together with…