State v. Brown

OPINION

SHARPE, Justice.

This appeal is from a judgment in a condemnation case in which the State of Texas, appellant, condemned for highway purpose the fee title, excepting minerals, to a 16.334 acre parcel of land out of a larger tract of 43.832 acres of land situated in Nueces County, Texas, and belonging to the condemnees, Russell Morton Brown and J. S. Johnson and wife.

The evidence shows that the parcel taken for highway purposes divided the entire tract so that the remainder was in two separate tracts containing 6.621 acres and 20.-877 acres, aggregating 27.498 acres.

The jury answered…