Griffin v. Coryell County

WILSON, Justice.

Plaintiffs, praying for injunction, originally sued the State of Texas and Cory-ell County, alleging fee simple ownership of a narrow strip of land, on which it was claimed defendants had trespassed and constructed a paved road constituting a portion of a highway. They pleaded defendants were threatening to enter the remaining unpaved area of the tract, to destroy improvements and to build a paved roadway thereon without authority, as a part of highway 281. The State pleaded its immunity. State and County pleaded acquisition of the described land by judgment in eminent domain…