State ex rel. Department of Highways v. D. H. Sanders Realty Co.

HAMITER, Justice.

As authorized by Article VI, Section 19.1 of the Constitution of Louisiana and LRS 48:441-460, the State of Louisiana, through the Department of Highways, instituted this proceeding to expropriate for a highway right of way three separate parcels or tracts *25of land (two small and one relatively large) located near the City of Amite and owned by D. H. Sanders Realty Company, Inc. Simultaneously, to compensate for the taking, it deposited the sum of $13,150 in the registry of the district court.

Answering, the defendant owner complained that the compensation proposed to be paid…