Louisiana Power & Light Co. v. Lasseigne

SAMUEL, Judge.

These three expropriation suits were consolidated for trial in the district court and for argument here. Plaintiff, an electric utility company with expropriating authority under the provisions of LSA-R.S. 19:2(9), owns an existing servitude or right of way, 100 feet in width, across defendants’ lands in the LaPlace area of St. John the Baptist Parish on which it has a 115-KV (115,000 volts) electric transmission line running between LaPlace and Sorrento as a link in its transmission system servicing St. John, St. James and Ascension Parishes. It filed these suits to obtain a…