Lucas v. Dallas County

LOONEY, Justice.

The court below sustaining a plea in abatement to appellants’ suit, dismissed same, resulting in this appeal. The nature of the suit and the facts giving rise to same, are these: Parker V. Lucas and his wife, Esther Lucas, owned 88 and a fraction acres of land in -Dallas County, being community property and their homestead. Dallas County, needing 8.64 acres of the land for public road purposes, instituted condemnation proceedings against Mr. Lucas; these proceedings resulted in judgment in favor of the County, vesting title for road purposes, and awarded Mr. Lucas the sum of…