Lafayette Airport Commission v. Roy

STOKER, Judge.

The issue in this case is whether interest is legally owing on a judgment fixing expert witness fees taxed as costs in an expropriation matter.1 Lafayette Airport Commission and Lafayette Parish Police Jury were the expropriating authorities. The trial court awarded interest on the expert fees from date of judicial demand until *248paid. Lafayette Airport Commission urges as its principal assignment of error the award of interest because the defendants in the expropriation failed to pray for interest in their prayers for relief contained in their answers filed in response to the…