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DAVIS v. CITY OF LUBBOCK

No. A-7072.

326 S.W.2d 699 (1959)

R. B. DAVIS et al., Appellants, v. CITY OF LUBBOCK and Urban Renewal Agency of the City of Lubbock, Texas, Appellees.

Supreme Court of Texas.

July 15, 1959.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Treadaway & Blumrosen, Shaw & Daniel, Lubbock, for appellants.

Vaughn E. Wilson, City Atty., Worth Fullingim, Asst. City Atty., Klett, Evans, Trout & Jones, Bobby J. Moody, Lubbock, for appellees.

GREENHILL, Justice.

This direct appeal involves certain basic constitutional questions regarding the validity of the Texas Urban Renewal Law.1 The most difficult questions before us are (1) whether the condemnation of property under the Act constitutes a taking for a "public use," and (2) the validity of the "trial de novo" provision of the Act which, as applicable here, would require an independent...

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