Opinion
No. 10012.
November 1, 1963.
APPEAL FROM TWENTY-SIXTH DISTRICT COURT, PARISH OF BOSSIER, STATE OF LOUISIANA, HONORABLE ENOS C. McCLENDON, JR., J.
Louis Lyons, Bossier City, for appellant.
D. Ross Banister, Glenn S. Darsey, Braxton E. Croom, Chester E. Martin, Baton Rouge, for appellee.
Before HARDY, GLADNEY and BOLIN, JJ.
This is an expropriation suit in which the plaintiff made total deposits of $1,950.00 for the taking of a tract of land of slightly less than one and one-half acres in connection with the construction of Interstate Highway I-20. Defendant claimed an increase in value to the sum of $5,250.00. After trial there was judgment in favor of defendant in the sum of $3,487.50, from which he has appealed. Plaintiff has answered the appeal, praying for a reduction to the sum of $1,950.00.
The opinion of the trial court clearly analyzed the testimony of all the witnesses and concluded by averaging the front foot values, testified by experts for both parties at from $32.50 to $35.00, at $33.75. In addition to this value, on a frontage of 90 feet amounting to $3,037.50, the court allowed the sum of $450.00 representing the balance of a sign rental on the property for the unexpired period of the lease therefor.
We find the total value of $3,487.50, less the amounts heretofore deposited by plaintiff, to be correct, and, accordingly, the judgment appealed from is affirmed at appellant's cost.