Tennessee Gas Transmission Co. v. Bailey

ELLIS, Judge.

This is an expropriation suit in which the plaintiff was granted a right of way and easement for its gas line 75 feet in width across a portion of the rear of a two and one-half acre tract of land situated in Acadia Parish, Louisiana, belonging to defendants. The land embraced in the right of way was .14 of an acre for which the District Court awarded $70, and this portion of the judgment was not contested by the plaintiff. The trial court also awarded the defendants the sum of $620 for damages to the adjoining land of the defendants occasioned by the right of way, and this…