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SOUTHWESTERN BELL TELEPHONE COMPANY v. GRIFFIN

No. 7885.

429 S.W.2d 576 (1968)

SOUTHWESTERN BELL TELEPHONE COMPANY, Appellant, v. Homer GRIFFIN et ux., Kate Griffin, Appellees.

Court of Civil Appeals of Texas, Texarkana.

June 18, 1968.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

J. K. Brim, Sulphur Springs, Jerry G. Thorn, Dallas, for appellant.

Howard Smith, William McDowell, Smith, Johnson & McDowell, Sulphur Springs, Woodrow H. Edwards, Mt. Vernon, for appellee.

FANNING, Justice.

An eminent domain case. Appellant telephone company condemned a diagonal easement across appellees' 68.9 acre tract of land for the purpose of laying an underground communications cable. The award of the special commissioners was duly appealed from by appellees to the county court of Hopkins County, Texas. Thereafter, the legislature, by special enactment, transferred eminent domain jurisdiction in Hopkins County from the county court to the district...

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