Dulaney v. Nolan County

GAINES, Associate Justice.

The plaintiff in error brought this suit against Nolan County to recover compensation for and damages to his lands, caused by opening a public road across them. The court below adjudged that he take nothing by his suit; and this writ of error is sued out to revise that judgment.

The trial judge, before whom the case was tried without a jury, filed his conclusions of fact and law. The assignments of error complain only of the conclusions of law. The following diagram, taken from the court’s conclusions, shows the situation of the road over the lands in question:

The…