Grief v. City of Homewood

STAKELY, Justice.

City of Homewood (appellee), a municipal corporation, filed its petition in the Probate Court of Jefferson County to condemn certain lands of Alice F. Grief (appellant), lying in Jefferson County, under the provisions of Chapter 1, Title 19, Code of 1940. She retained attorneys to repre-. sent her in the proceeding. On September 1, 1949 the commissioners who had been appointed made an award to appellant in the amount of $17,500. No appeal was taken from the award. On February 28, 1950, the City of Homewood paid the court costs in the proceeding but never paid the damages so…