Cypress-Black Bayou Recreation & Water Conservation District v. Merritt

HALL, Judge.

In this expropriation suit brought in connection with the construction of the Cy*160press-Black Bayou Reservoir, Site #1, in Bossier Parish, the district court awarded defendant $6,452.50 as compensation for 25.85 acres taken in full ownership, $154 for a flowage servitude on a 7.7 acre tract and $2,520 as severance damages to defendant’s remaining property. Defendant appealed, taking issue only with the amount awarded as severance damages.

Defendant was the owner of a 120 acre tract of land located approximately five miles southeast of Benton. The central portion of the tract is…