STATE EX REL. DEPARTMENT OF HIGHWAYS v. GARRICK

Nos. 51056, 51199.

256 So.2d 111 (1971)

260 La. 340

STATE of Louisiana, Through the DEPARTMENT OF HIGHWAYS v. Hoyt GARRICK. STATE of Louisiana, Through the DEPARTMENT OF HIGHWAYS v. Helen Seal RIVERS.

Supreme Court of Louisiana.

Dissenting Opinion January 5, 1972.

Rehearings Denied January 17, 1972.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Talley, Anthony, Hughes & Knight, John W. Anthony, Bogalusa, for defendants-applicants.

D. Ross Banister, Chester E. Martin, William W. Irwin, Jr., Johnie E. Branch, Jr., Baton Rouge, for plaintiff-respondent.

Barranger, Barranger & Jones, William J. Jones, Jr., Covington, for amicus curiae.


DIXON, Justice.

These consolidated cases arise out of expropriations for the construction of the new bypass route of Louisiana 21 through Bogalusa, Louisiana. In both cases, the property involved is marginal residential rental property. The Garrick property is a lot of approximately 100 foot frontage by approximately 215 feet deep, fronting on Vance Street. The property taken was a strip across the front 5.59 feet deep (a total of 549.22 square feet). There were no...

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