CITY OF HOUSTON v. CULMORE

No. A-5048.

278 S.W.2d 825 (1955)

CITY OF HOUSTON, Petitioner, v. Misses Blanche and Willis CULMORE, Respondents.

Supreme Court of Texas.

Rehearing Denied June 1, 1955.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Will G. Sears, City Atty., Ernest A. Knipp, Howard S. Hoover, T. B. Blanchard, Walker F. Johnston, Houston, for petitioners.

Hamblen & Bobbitt, W. J. Mills, Houston, for respondents.


HICKMAN, Chief Justice.

This suit, originally styled City of Houston v. Paul E. Armstrong et al., was brought against more than one hundred and seventy persons, firms, and corporations to condemn property out of the J. S. Collins Survey in Harris County forming a link in State Highway No. 59. It was alleged that there existed such irreconcilable conflicts in the titles, boundaries, and locations of the various tracts involved that the City could not agree on the amount...

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