Traders' Compress Co. v. State

JACKSON, Justice.

The state of Texas, as plaintiff, acting by and through the commissioners’ court of Col-lingsworth county, instituted proceedings against the defendant, the Traders’ Compress Company, to secure for the state, by condemnation, a strip of land off of the west side of an eight-acre tract owned by the defendant.

The condemnation proceedings were filed and prosecuted under the authority given by the Legislature in the Acts of the 39⅝ Legislature (1925), c. 18®, § 14, as amended iby Acts 41st Leg. (1929), 3d Called Sess.,. c. 10, General Laws, p. 243 (see Vernon’s Ann. Civ. St. art.…