State ex rel. Department of Highways v. Carso

BOLIN, Judge.

This is the latest in a series of appeals involving expropriation of property by the Highway Department in the City of Monroe, Louisiana, for the purpose of improving the flow of traffic on Louisville Avenue and on arterial streets bringing traffic into that avenue. The order of expropriation decreed the state to be the owner of 2,137.98 square feet taken from the corner of a two-lot tract owned by defendants and located on the northwest corner of Louisville Avenue and North Fifth Street, leaving a remainder of 11,730 square feet. At the beginning of the trial defendants’ counsel…