Parish of East Baton Rouge v. Succession of Cashio

TUCKER, Judge.

This is an expropriation suit in which plaintiff, the governing authority of East Baton Rouge, Parish sought expropriation by order dated October 7, 1969 of two tracts of property designated as Parcels 6-3 and 7-2 on the survey maps incorporated into the record, said parcels of property owned by the defendants. This expropriation was designed for the purpose of improving the drainage of property lying along both sides of the Airline Highway in the general vicinity of the southeasterly corporate limits of the City of Baton Rouge. The whole of the property is one tract of land…