Brazos River Conservation & Reclamation Dist. v. Harmon

LESLIE, Chief Justice.

Mrs. Jessie Harmon and others undertook to enjoin the Brazos River Conservation and Reclamation District from entering upon and appropriating their lands for the construction of Possum Kingdom Dam. Brazos River and Reclamation Dist. v. Costello, 135 Tex. 307, 143 S.W.2d 577, 130 A.L.R. 1220. The District by way of cross-action under Art. 3269, Vernon’s Ann.Civ.St., -sought condemnation under the right of eminent domain. The trial was before the court and jury, and upon the latter’s answers to special issues judgment was entered awarding damages for land taken and also…