Ingram v. County of Nueces

MURRAY, Chief Justice.

This is a condemnation action, originally brought by County of Nueces and the United States Department of Agriculture, Soil Conservation Service, the latter having been dismissed from the suit before the trial began, for tire purpose of securing an easement for drainage purposes across lands to which the fee simple title is held by Donald Ingram and Ingeborg Ingram, Trustees. Mrs. Evelyn Walker is in possession of said land under an agricultural lease.

The trial was to a jury and, based upon the jury’s answers to the issues submitted, judgment was rendered that condemnor…