Schneidau v. Louisiana Highway Commission

O’NIELL, Chief Justice.

This is a suit for the value of property taken for a public purpose and for damages to the remaining property. The purpose for which the property was taken was to obtain dirt for a roadbed for the construction of a public highway. The Highway Commission bought a comparatively-small area of'ground adjoining the-land of the plaintiff for the purpose of ob ■taining dirt to construct a highway; and the plaintiff contends that in the digging of the borrow pit to’ get the dirt the Highway Commission unintentionally en'croached upon the plaintiffs land to the extent of about…