American Tel. & Tel. Co. v. EAST AND REALTY CO.

FOURNET, Chief Justice.

This expropriation suit, instituted by the American Telephone and Telegraph Company to acquire a right-of-way and servitude covering a strip of land over various contiguous tracts owned by the defendants, East End Realty Co., Inc., Realty Holding Company, Inc., and R. E. E. de Montluzin Co., Inc. (real estate development corporations), the said strip measuring 16% feet in width and somewhat less than 10 miles in length and lying along the public highway formed in part by U. S. Highway 90 and in part by the' Chef Menteur Highway, for the purpose of constructing,…