Legal Opinion
STATE OF LOUISIANA THROUGH DEPT. OF HWYS. v. Glassell
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Decided January 10, 1955No. 41709PublishedCited by 39 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
McCALEB, Justice.
This is an expropriation suit in which the State, through the Department of Highways, seeks rights-of-way across two parcels of land owned by the defendant for the relocation of U. S. Highway 71 between Dixie and- Gilliam, in Caddo Parish, together with the right to remove dirt from a borrow-pit area on one of the plantations and a servitude of passage between the borrow-pit and the highway right-of-way. The right of expropriation is not contested and there is also no controversy in respect of the value of the right-of-way comprising 1.456 acres off the east end of Lakeland…
2Cases cited4 opinions
- Mississippi State Highway Commission v. HillmanMississippi Supreme Court · 1940
- Housing Authority v. BoudwineSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1954
- Louisiana Highway Commission v. GuidrySupreme Court of Louisiana · 1933
- Brittingham v. Board of Com'rs of Drainage Dist. No. 1Supreme Court of Louisiana · 1928
3Cited by39 opinions
- Central La. El. Co. v. Covington & St. Tammany L. & I. Co.Louisiana Court of Appeal · 1961
- State Ex Rel. Department of Highways v. HaywardSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1963
- Beatty v. ViningLouisiana Court of Appeal · 1962
- City of New Orleans v. GiraudSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1959
- Gravity Drainage District No. 1 v. KeySupreme Court of Louisiana · 1958
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