Dejean v. State, Department of Highways

PRICE, Judge.

Plaintiffs in these consolidated suits sold property to the Department of Highways in connection with the proposed widening of U.S. Highway 167 in Jackson Parish. Plaintiffs now seek to set the sales aside for lesion beyond moiety contending they sold the property for less than half of its value. The trial court rejected plaintiffs’ demand for rescission of the sales, but assessed the cost of the proceedings including expert witness fees against the Department of Highways.

The Department of Highways has appealed from the trial court’s action in assessing against it the cost of…