Phelps v. State

JACKSON, Chief Justice.

The record shows that at the request of the Texas Highway Department the commissioners court of Donley County agreed to obtain land for the necessary right of way to construct an overpass on the Fort Worth and Denver City Railway Company near the north line of the city limits of the city of Clarendon. It also agreed to secure the required land for right of way purposes north from said overpass a distance of approximately two miles for the construction of State Highway No. 18 to a point where it would intersect the present paved road.

The commissioners court passed the…