Legal Opinion
Orleans Parish School Board v. Dorsett
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Decided February 28, 1964No. 46895PublishedCited by 11 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
McCALEB, Justice.
This is an expropriation suit in which the Orleans Parish School Board seeks to secure a 25-acre parcel of ground located in the Gentilly section of New Orleans for the purpose of erecting a high school. Defendant landowner resisted the demand on the ground that the expropriation of her property was unnecessary and that, in any event, all of the property sought to be taken was not needed.
After a trial on this issue in the district court it was found that 15 acres of the land would adequately serve the purposes for which it was to be taken. Later, judgment was rendered fixing…
2Cases cited3 opinions
- Westwego Canal & Terminal Co. v. Louisiana Highway CommissionSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1942
- Housing Authority v. PolmerSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1956
- Orleans Parish School Board v. DorsettLouisiana Court of Appeal · 1963
3Cited by11 opinions
- Sterkx v. Gravity Drainage Dist. No. 1 of Rapides Par.Louisiana Court of Appeal · 1968
- State, Department of Highways v. BabineauxLouisiana Court of Appeal · 1966
- Taylor v. BOARD OF LEVEE COM'RSLouisiana Court of Appeal · 1976
- City of Monroe v. NastasiLouisiana Court of Appeal · 1965
- Collins Pipeline Company v. New Orleans East, Inc.Louisiana Court of Appeal · 1971
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