Wilbarger County v. Hall

This proceeding originated in the commissioners’ court of Wilbarger county, and its apparent purpose was to take, for public use, 3.21 acres of land belonging to the defendant in error and to apply this land, so taken, to the use of the state highway commission as State Highway No. 28, commonly called Lee Highway, running from a point on the Red river in the northern part of the state west-wardly to the New Mexico line, without having secured the consent of the defendant in error. The opinion of the Court of Civil Appeals, which contains a very full statement of the facts, including the…