Mississippi River Transmission Corp. v. Tabor

WISDOM, Circuit Judge:

This appeal arises from a judgment ordering that the defendant’s property rights in four tracts of land in Lincoln Parish, Louisiana be expropriated, in accordance with La.Rev.Stat.Ann. §§ 19:1, 19:2, 19:2.1 (West 1979)1 and 15 U.S.C. § 717f(h) (1982),2 *for continued use by the plaintiff as a gas storage reservoir upon the plaintiff’s payment to the defendant of just compensation for the rights so expropriated. On appeal, this court is asked to determine whether, under Louisiana law,3 the defendant owned a compensable property right that required expropriation, whether…