MISSOURI PACIFIC RAILROAD CO. v. STATE

No. 511.

469 S.W.2d 817 (1971)

MISSOURI PACIFIC RAILROAD CO., Appellant, v. The STATE of Texas et al., Appellees.

Court of Civil Appeals of Texas, Houston (14th Dist.).

Rehearing Denied August 11, 1971.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ben G. Sewell, William A. Paddock; Sewell, Junell & Riggs, Houston, for appellant.

Joe Resweber, Charles J. Wilson, Houston, for appellees.


TUNKS, Chief Justice.

This is a condemnation case. The condemnee's land, before the taking here in question, was an unimproved tract of about 550 acres in a roughly square shape. (This and other acreage figures have been rounded.) The only access to it was by a dedicated but unimproved city street called Mowery Road extending west from about the middle of the western boundary of the tract. The land taken by the State consisted of 40 acres and was for the purpose of...

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