Scorsune v. State

FOURNET, Chief Justice.

Cologero Scorsune is seeking to recover from the state, through its Department of Highways, the sum of $6,250 as compensation for the reduction in value of property owned by him fronting on the Shreveport-Bossier State Highway, Route No. 4, by reason of the appropriation of a strip from this property when the highway was widened and improved in 1952, the appropriation purportedly having been made under authority granted by him in a deed executed in 1931, which deed he claims to be null and without effect in that it describes no specific property conveyed, was without…