Louisiana Power & Light Co. v. Lasseigne

BARHAM, Justice.

Plaintiff, a public utility with expropriating authority tinder R.S. 19:2(9), filed these expropriation suits, which were consolidated for trial, for appeal, and for argument before us, seeking to obtain a 100-foot servitude across these defendants’ lands and offering to abandon another 100-foot servitude across a different portion of their lands and to pay an additional amount for just compensation. The trial court granted the new servitude upon release and extinguishment by plaintiff of the existing servitude, reserved to defendants the right to claim damages which might be…