[DOWNLOAD] "Texas Pipe Line Company v. G. Drummond Hunt Et Ux." by The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals * eBook PDF Kindle ePub Free
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- Title: Texas Pipe Line Company v. G. Drummond Hunt Et Ux.
- Author : The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals
- Release Date : January 08, 1950
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 69 KB
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By a proceeding in the County Court of Dallas County at Law No. 1, petitioner, The Texas Pipe Line Company, condemned for pipe line right-of-way purposes, including piping of all types of petroleum products, a strip of land 35 feet in width and of 1.342 acres total area, out of a tract of 185 acres or more lying about six miles west of the Dallas County Court House and owned by respondents, Mr. and Mrs. Hunt. The latter claimed very large damages and were actually awarded $16,073.60 based on jury findings to the effect that (a) the precondemnation market value of the 1.342-acre strip was $1073.60 and its post-condemnation market value zero; (b) the depreciation in market value of the tract other than the strip, by reason of the condemnation, amounted to $15,000. The pipe line company appealed from this award, assigning errors in connection with the $15,000 portion thereof as well as error in the judgment and underlying findings in so far as they in effect treated the condemnation as entirely destroying the value of the easement strip. The Court of Civil Appeals sustained only the assignment last mentioned, as to which, however, it did not reverse