Parish of East Baton Rouge v. Thomas Road Development Corp.

NEHRBASS, Judge.

This is an expropriation suit where the Parish of East Baton Rouge in furtherance of a drainage program seeks to widen and improve Brownsfield Lateral of Cypress Bayou. Defendant owns property which is traversed by an existing natural drainage ditch. The plaintiff seeks to expropriate a one hundred foot wide right of way across defendant’s property or a total of 3.573 acres. The program calls for widening and deepening of the existing ditch, and when completed the drainage canal will be approximately forty-five feet wide across the top, nine feet deep and have a width on its…