State v. Cooper

HAMITER, Justice.

■The defendants, Miss Octavine M. Cooper and Mrs. Carrie C. Dixon, own a tract of land in the Parish of Ascension, containing 140 acres, which is bounded on the north by Bayou Manchac and on the south by State Route No. 885, or, as popularly referred to, the Bullion Road. Across this tract there is proposed to be constructed a part of the Prairieville-Nesser Highway, a link in what is known as the Airline Highway.

For the .accomplishment of such purpose the State of Louisiana, through the Department of Highways, instituted this expropriation suit praying that there be adjudged…