Texas Gas Transmission Corporation v. Broussard

HAMITER, Justice.

Texas Gas Transmission Corporation instituted three expropriation actions against the owners of three separate tracts of land situated in Lafayette Parish to obtain a 50' right of way or easement across such properties for the construction, operation and maintenance of a 20" high pressure gas transmission line. The respective defendants in the suits (as numbered on the docket of this court), as well as the approximate acreage contained in each tract, are as follows: No. 43,336 (the instant cause), Mrs. Aurelia Broussard — 90 acres; No. 43,337, Walter Daspit — -100 acres, 234…