City of Houston v. Priester

GANNON, Justice.

This was a suit by the City of Houston against Lorraine Blum Priester, individually and as independent executrix of the estate of William G. Priester, and the First National Bank in Houston, Texas, to condemn the fee title to improved property near the downtown section of the City of Houston, being Lots 1 and 2 and portions of Lots 3 and 12, in Block 175, S.S.B.B. On the coming in of the award of the commissioners, defendants, who are appellees here, filed their objections to the award, and the case was tried to a jury on'the sole issue of damages. The property involved is…