Central Louisiana Electric Co. v. Brooks

FRUGÉ, Judge.

By this expropriation suit Central Louisiana Electric Company, Inc. (Cleco) seeks to condemn a servitude across defendant’s prime agricultural land for the construction of two side-by-side electric transmission lines. The district court granted the plaintiff’s demand for the servitude, fixing the landowner’s compensation at 75% of the acreage embraced by the servitude and 15% severance damages to the remainder of the landowner’s 114 acre tract. The defendant landowner has appealed, urging on numerous grounds the reversal of the condemnor’s successful acquisition of the servitude…