Parish of East Baton Rouge v. Bozeman

BLANCHE, Judge.

This is a devolutive appeal taken by plaintiff, Parish of East Baton Rouge, from a judgment in an expropriation suit. The only issue on appeal is the correctness of the trial court’s award of just compensation and severance damages in favor of defendant-landowner, Mark O. Bozeman. Finding no manifest error committed by the trial judge, we affirm.

The trial judge rendered Written Reasons for Judgment, from which we approvingly reproduce the following excerpts:

“This is an expropriation proceeding. Plaintiff, hereafter referred to as ‘Parish’, filed this proceeding to obtain the…