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HOUSTON LIGHTING v. KLEIN INDEP. SCH. D.

No. B14-86-002-CV.

739 S.W.2d 508 (1987)

HOUSTON LIGHTING & POWER COMPANY, Appellant, v. KLEIN INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT, Appellee.

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

Rehearing Denied December 17, 1987.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Walter E. Workman, Houston, for appellant.

H. Dixon Montague, H. Ronald Welsh, Fred M. Lange, B. Lee Ware, Marie R. Yeates, Ewing Werlein, Jr., Houston, for appellee.

Before PAUL PRESSLER, SEARS and CANNON, JJ.

OPINION

PAUL PRESSLER, Justice.

Appellee was awarded $104,275 actual damages and $25 million punitive damages as well as a writ of possession and a permanent injunction in a condemnation proceeding. We find error in the $25 million punitive damages award and modify the judgment to delete those damages. We affirm the judgment as modified.

In 1981 HL & P petitioned to condemn a one-hundred-foot-wide strip of land on which to build part of a 79...

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