Southwestern Bell Telephone Co. v. Griffin

FANNING, Justice.

An eminent domain case. Appellant telephone company condemned a diagonal easement across appellees’ 68.9 acre tract of land for the purpose of laying an underground communications cable. The award of the special commissioners was duly appealed from by appellees to the county court of Hopkins County, Texas. Thereafter, the legislature, by special enactment, transferred eminent domain jurisdiction in Hopkins County from the county court to the district court. Trial in the district court resulted in a judgment for appellees entered on a verdict of a jury in response to special…