Hester v. State

OPINION

PRESLAR, Justice.

This is an eminent domain proceeding in which the State of Texas and County of Gaines condemned for highway widening purposes 0.621 of an acre of appellants’ land out of a tract 270 feet wide and 200 feet deep. The tract taken fronted on the highway and amounted to approximately one-half of the total of appellants’ property; it was virtually unimproved, but the remaining property was occupied by a brick veneer house and its yard. Trial was to a jury which found the value of the land taken to be $10,000.00 and damage to the remainder to be $3,000.00. Those were the only…