HOUSTON LIGHTING & POWER COMPANY v. ADAMS

No. 3502.

309 S.W.2d 537 (1958)

HOUSTON LIGHTING & POWER COMPANY, Appellant, v. Mrs. Lucy T. ADAMS et vir, Appellees.

Court of Civil Appeals of Texas, Waco.

Rehearing Denied February 13, 1958.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Baker, Botts, Andrews & Shepherd, W. V. Ballew, Jr., William R. Brown, Houston, Peareson, Scherer & Roberts, Walton S. Roberts, Richmond, for appellant.

Liddell, Austin, Dawson & Huggins, Ernest C. Hurst, Charles R. Vickery, Jr., Houston, for appellees.


TIREY, Justice.

This is a condemnation case. The court submitted six issues to the jury and absent the burden of proof clause they are substantially as follows:

1. What do you find to have been the market value of the 2.247 acre tract of land owned by Mr. and Mrs. Adams, designated Easement A, considered as severed land, immediately before the taking of said easement on July 5, 1955? Answer: $10,111.50. 2. What do you find to have been the market...

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