McCraw v. City of Dallas

BATEMAN, Justice.

This is a suit by abutting owners against the City of Dallas and Texas Turnpike Authority for title to a strip of land 30 feet wide and 1,137.79 feet long. The principal question involved is whether the dedication of the strip as a street in 1941 has been timely accepted, or rejected or abandoned by the City in the intervening years. The trial court rendered summary judgment that the plaintiffs take nothing and adjudicating that the City of Dallas have an easement to the strip without encumbrances or impairments, for public use as a street or thoroughfare. The plaintiffs…