Texas Electric Service Co. v. Perkins

* Writ of error granted. In May, 1927, O. S. Perkins and wife, L. E. Perkins, owned and occupied as their homestead 160 acres of land in Young county, over which the appellant corporation sought a right of way for its lines, to be used in the transmission of electric power. Pursuant to the procedure prescribed under title 52 of our Revised Statutes relating to eminent domain, it gave notice and secured the appointment of qualified commissioners to assess the damage. The commission on the 10th day of May, 1927, met and assessed the damage to Perkins and wife occasioned by the desired line, at…