Legal Opinion

Rivet v. State, Department of Transportation & Development

Louisiana Court of Appeal

Decided June 26, 2002No. 02-CA-127Published

1Opinion of the Court

| ¡MARION F. EDWARDS, Judge.

In this appeal, appellant contests the trial court’s award of attorney’s fees. For the following reasons, the judgment of the trial court is affirmed.

This case comes before us on appeal for the third time. The facts underlying the basis of this inverse condemnation suit, filed on October 9, 1987, are no longer at issue, and were summarized in our previous opinion, Rivet v. State, DOTD.1 In our first opinion in this case, we affirmed the trial court’s finding that the state had taken the plaintiffs property. However, we set aside the trial court’s award of damages…

2Cases cited8 opinions

  1. Stobart v. State Through DOTDSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1993
  2. Arceneaux v. DomingueSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1978
  3. Gonzales v. Xerox Corp.Supreme Court of Louisiana · 1975
  4. STATE, DOTD v. WilliamsonSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1992
  5. Rivet v. State, Dept. of Trans. and Dev.Supreme Court of Louisiana · 1996

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