State ex rel. Department of Highways v. Barber

LOUIS H. YARRUT, Judge ad hoc.

This is an appeal from a judgment allowing defendant-owner $15,700 for his home expropriated by plaintiff. Defendant’s original claim was $18,000, now reduced to'$17,-300 as defendant’s own experts fixed the value at that amount, which defendant concedes. Hence, the amount in dispute is only $1,600.

This suit was instituted by the State of Louisiana, through the Department of Highways, for the expropriation, for highway purposes, of a lot of ground situated in the Parish of Jefferson and owned by the defendant, in accordance with the authority conferred by Section…