Stewart v. Department of Highways

SANDERS, Justice.

This is a suit in tort for damages resulting from the demolition of a building *373located at 1108 Dryades Street in the City of New Orleans.

As an aftermath of an expropriation suit by the Department of Highways of the State of Louisiana, the plaintiff, Mrs. Josephine A. Stewart, seeks in this proceeding the sum of $1,015 as damages for trespass in the demolition by the defendant1 of that portion of the above building extending outside the right-of-way. In answer, the defendant alleged that the property demolished was expropriated by it in Suit No. 346-992 entitled “State of…