State v. Carpenter

This appeal is prosecuted from a judgment of the county court at law of McLennan county in favor of the state of Texas, acting by and through the commissioners’ court of said county, condemning 8¾00 acres of land for highway purposes and awarding to R. B. Carpenter and wife, Irene Carpenter, owners of the land, and the Union Central Life Insurance Company, the holder of a lien thereon,' the sum-of $803 as compensation for the land taken and the further sum of $3,477 as damages to the remainder of the tract of which the land so taken formed a part. Appellees admitted in open court that all the…