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STATE, DEPARTMENT OF HIGHWAYS v. BURLEIGH

No. 1067.

160 So.2d 782 (1964)

STATE of Louisiana, through the DEPARTMENT OF HIGHWAYS, Plaintiff and Appellant, v. Charles BURLEIGH, Defendant and Appellee,

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Third Circuit.

February 18, 1964.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

D. Ross Banister, Glenn S. Darsey, Chester E. Martin, Brunswig Sholars, Baton Rouge (Chester E. Martin, Baton Rouge, of counsel), for plaintiff-appellant.

Dubuisson & Dubuisson, by James G. Dubuisson, Opelousas, for defendant-appellee.

Before FRUGE, HOOD and CULPEPPER, JJ.

CULPEPPER, Judge.

This is an expropriation suit brought under the provisions of LSA-R.S. 48:441-48:460. The State deposited $215. as compensation and took a narrow strip of land containing .091 acres off the front of defendant's farm to widen and blacktop an existing gravel highway. Defendant applied for a trial to determine the just compensation to which he is entitled, (LSA-R.S. 48:451) pursuant to which a trial was had and the district judge increased the compensation...

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