State ex rel. Department of Highways v. Jones

REID, Judge.

The State of Louisiana, through the Department of Highways, instituted this expropriation suit in connection with the eastern approach’ to the Mississippi River Bridge on Baton Rouge Interstate Route La. 1-10, appropriating all the lands and improvements of the defendants Philip K. Jones and Joseph C. Dabadie, Jr. The property in question fronts 38.67 feet on the westerly side of St. Ferdinand Street by a • depth between parallel lines of 90 feet, about four blocks south of the Parish courthouse in Baton Rouge, in an area of old frame houses, many of which have been converted into…