HANKS v. GULF, COLORADO & SANTA FE RAILWAY COMPANY

No. A-6688.

320 S.W.2d 333 (1959)

Effie L. HANKS and husband, E. E. Hanks, Petitioners, v. GULF, COLORADO & SANTA FE RAILWAY COMPANY, Respondent.

Supreme Court of Texas.

Rehearing Denied February 18, 1959.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Coleman & Whitten, Denton, for petitioners.

McLeod, Mills, Shirley & Alexander, Galveston, Burford, Ryburn & Ford, Robert E. Burns, Dallas, Fred H. Minor, John L. Sullivan and T. B. Davis, Denton, for respondent.


SMITH, Justice.

This is a condemnation suit brought by the respondent under our laws of eminent domain against the petitioners for a right of way out of and over and across a 61.22-acre tract of land adjoining the city limits of the City of Denton. We have but one question to decide, which is: Was certain testimony hereinafter more specifically referred to, offered by the respondent and excluded by the trial court, admissible, and if so, did the exclusion thereof...

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