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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

MICHIGAN WISCONSIN PIPE LINE COMPANY, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Edwin A. GONSOULIN et al., Defendants-Appellants.
    No. 2727.
    Court of Appeal of Louisiana. Third Circuit.
    June 12, 1969.
    Rehearing Denied July 24, 1969.
    
      Mestayer & Simon, by Ray F. Mestayer, New Iberia, for defendants-appellants.
    Shotwell, Brown and Sperry, by Burt Sperry, Monroe, Earl H. Willis, St. Martin-ville, for plaintiff-appellee.
    Before SAVOY, CULPEPPER and MILLER, JJ.
   MILLER, Judge.

For the reasons stated in the consolidated case of Michigan Wisconsin Pipe Line Company v. Walet, La.App., 225 So.2d 76, in which a separate decision is being rendered by us this date, the judgment appealed in the present case is amended and affirmed.

It is now ordered, adjudged and decreed that the trial court’s judgment is amended such that Michigan Wisconsin Pipe Line Company is ordered to pay Defendants Edwin A. Gonsoulin and Clenie Segura the sum of Fifty-two hundred fifty-nine and 81/100 ($5259.81) Dollars, together with interest at 5% per annum from August 9, 1968 until paid, which is adjudged to be the value of the right of way and damages resulting from the contraction of the pipe line together with expenses found to be a direct consequence of construction of the pipeline; specifically reserving to defendants their claim for damages to their 1968 crop located outside the right of way but within a “cut” crossed by the pipeline, and/or any damages sustained by them or their equipment as a result of their attempt to save their 1968 crop and which they can show resulted from construction, installation and/or operation of the pipeline.

All court costs are to be paid by Michigan Wisconsin Pipe Line Company.

Amended and affirmed.

HOOD, J.,

dissents for reasons that are assigned in 225 So.2d 76.

ON REHEARING

En Banc.

PER CURIAM.

For the reasons stated in the consolidated case of Michigan Wisconsin Pipe Line Company v. Walet, La.App., 225 So.2d 76, in which a separate decision is being rendered by us this date, the judgment appealed in the present case is amended and affirmed.

It is therefore ordered, adjudged and decreed that the judgment rendered herein be vacated and set aside, and that the trial court’s judgment is amended such that Michigan Wisconsin Pipe Line Company is ordered to pay to defendants, Edwin A. Gonsoulin and Clenie Segura, the sum of Five thousand, seventy-four and 05/100 ($5,074.05) Dollars, together with interest of five per cent (5%) per annum from August 9, 1968, until paid, which is adjudged to be the value of the right of way and damages resulting from the construction of the pipeline together with expenses found to be a direct consequence of construction of the pipeline; specifically reserving to defendants their claim for damages to their 1968 crop located outside the right of way but within a “cut” crossed by the pipeline, and/or any damages sustained by them or their equipment as a result of their attempt to save the 1968 crop and which they can show resulted from construction, installation and/or operation of the pipeline. All costs are to be paid by Michigan Wisconsin Pipe Line Company.

With these amendments, the application for rehearing is denied. We reserve to Defendants-Appellants the right to apply for rehearing on this amended decree.

Original decree amended, rehearing denied. Rights reserved to defendants-appellants to apply for rehearing.