Legal Opinion
Gibbon v. Police Jury of Parish
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Decided June 30, 1916No. 21849PublishedCited by 1 opinion
Appeal from Twenty-Third Judicial District Court, Parish of St. Mary; Thomas M. Milling, Judge. Action by Miss Kate Gibbon and others against the Police Jury of the Parish of St. Mary. Judgment for plaintiffs, and defendant appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtProvosty, J.
Section 3368, Revised Statutes, providing the manner in which police juries may expropriate rights of way for public roads, is amended by Act 220, p. 417, of 1914, by the addition of the following provision:
“It shall be lawful for any individual through whose land the police jury shall cause a public road to be laid out, to claim a compensation of double the assessed value of the said land.”
The defendant claimed a greater value than this, and contended that this law, in so far as it undertakes to fix the value of the land to be taken, or to fix the standard by which such value _ is to be…
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