Transcontinental Gas Pipe Line Corp. v. Bourgeois

LOTTINGER, Judge.

This and the consolidated suit entitled Transcontinental Gas Pipe Line Corporation v. Sobert, La.App., 116 So.2d 892, No. 13,396 of the docket of the Lower Court, are expropriation proceedings instituted by plaintiff against adjoining landowners in the Parish of Lafourche. In each suit the trial judge ordered the expropriation upon the payment of stated compensation for the servitudes and damages to the property and the defendants have appealed. Plaintiff neither appealed nor answered the appeals.

The sole question presented both in the Lower Court and here is that of quantum.…