Case ID: so2d_227/html/0013-02.html
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

DIXIE PIPELINE COMPANY, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. John A. BROUSSARD, Defendant-Appellant.
    No. 2766.
    Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Third Circuit.
    Sept. 16, 1969.
    Dissenting Opinion Sept. 19, 1969.
    Rehearing Denied Oct. 17, 1969.
    Writ Refused Jan. 9, 1970.
    J. Barry Mouton, Lafayette, for defendant-appellant.
    
      John V. Parker, Baton Rouge, Andrew J. S. Jumonville, of Davidson, Meaux, Onebane & Donohoe, Lafayette, for plaintiff-appellant.
    Before FRUGÉ, HOOD and MILLER, JJ.
   MILLER, Judge.

This expropriation suit by Dixie Pipeline Company versus John A. Broussard is a companion to two other similar suits. See Dixie Pipeline Company v. Barry, 227 So.2d 1 (No. 2764 on our docket), and Dixie Pipeline Company v. Trosclair, 227 So.2d 13 (No. 2765 on our docket).

For the reasons assigned in Dixie Pipeline Company v. Barry, supra, the judgment appealed from in the instant suit is amended to award additional damages to John A. Broussard in the amount of $739.90 as severance damages related to the taking of the 8-inch pipeline servitude. Defendant is entitled to interest at the rate of 5% per annum from December 18, 1968, until paid. The judgment is otherwise affirmed. Costs of this appeal are assessed to plaintiff-appellee.

Amended and affirmed.

HOOD, Judge

(dissenting).

For the reasons set out in my dissent in the companion case of Dixie Pipeline Company v. Barry, 227 So.2d 1 (No. 2764 on our docket), I respectfully dissent from that portion of the judgment on rehearing in the instant suit which awards severance damages to the defendant.

On Application for Rehearing.

En Banc. Rehearing denied.

HOOD, J. and SAVOY, J., are of the opinion that a rehearing should be granted.