Board of Commissioners v. Quaintance

The county commissioners of Jefferson county filed a petition in the district court of that county to acquire by right of eminent domain a strip of land for highway purposes pursuant to the provisions of chapter 61, ’35 C.S.A. Parcel number 1 therein was allegedly owned by re spondents Matilda Ramstetter, Alice C. Ramstetter, and Ernest A. Ramstetter as administrator of the estate of Henry Ramstetter, deceased, subject to a sheriff’s certificate of purchase held by Otto Fredericks, and a deed of trust held by the Central Savings Bank and Trust Company.

June 20, 1940, the date upon which said…