SOUTHWESTERN BELL TELEPHONE COMPANY v. WEST

No. 7993.

456 S.W.2d 143 (1970)

SOUTHWESTERN BELL TELEPHONE COMPANY, Appellant, v. J. Harlan WEST and wife, Doris West, Appellees.

Court of Civil Appeals of Texas, Texarkana.

Rehearing Denied June 30, 1970.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

J. H. Hand and David L. Larson, Dallas, J. Kearney Brim, Sulphur Springs, Gerald R. Jenkins, Dallas, for appellant.

Howard S. Smith, Smith, Johnson & McDowell, Sulphur Springs, Woodrow H. Edwards, Mt. Vernon, for appellees.


CHADICK, Chief Justice.

The following statement from the appellant's brief gives the background and the general nature of this lawsuit; and for that purpose it is adopted: "This case is a proceeding in eminent domain to obtain a 20-foot wide limited easement across and under the land of Appellees in Hopkins County, Texas, for the installation of an underground communications cable necessary to provide long distance telephone service to the public in Sulphur Springs...

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