Huggins v. Hurt

CONNER, Chief Justice.

On December 17, 1898, appellant filed in the District Court of Clay County his petition in an alternative form, (1) to enjoin the opening of a public road over and across his land, which road had already been ordered to be laid out and opened; and (2) for damages to his lands adjacent and contiguous to said road, in the event said injunction should be refused, and praying for general relief.

The suit was against E. S. Hurt, county judge, and the four commissioners, as the Commissioners Court, and the other defendant Flowers, as road overseer, and in effect against Clay…