Lafayette Parish Through the Police Jury v. Hernandez

HAWTHORNE, Justice.

This is an expropriation suit, instituted by the Police Jury of Lafayette Parish to acquire for a drainage canal a strip of land approximately 400 feet wide extending across the property of the defendant from its northwestern boundary to the Vermilion River on the southeast. The land sought to be expropriated is 20.23 acres out of a tract of about 134 acres owned by the defendant situated on the southern fringe of the City of Lafayette. After trial on the merits there was judgment in favor of the Lafayette Parish Police Jury awarding it full title to the 20.23-acre strip…