Legal Opinion
Houston Lighting & Power Co. v. Klein Independent School District
Court of Appeals of Texas
Decided November 5, 1987No. B14-86-002-CVPublishedCited by 31 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
PAUL PRESSLER; Justice.
Appellee was awarded $104,275 actual damages and $25 million punitive damages as well as a writ of possession and a permanent injunction in a condemnation proceeding. We find error in the $25 million punitive damages award and modify the judgment to delete those damages. We affirm the judgment as modified.
In 1981 HL & P petitioned to condemn a one-hundred-foot-wide strip of land on which to build part of a 79.2-mile 345,000-volt transmission line. Klein owned the affected property, which served as a campus for two schools and a proposed third. Three special…
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