State v. Davis

FUNDERBURK, Justice.

The State of Texas, acting by and through the Commissioners’ Court of Dawson County, on October 4, 1938, filed a petition (as shown by indorsement thereon) in the office of the County Clerk of Dawson County. It described a 3.43-acre tract of land, alleging its ownership by Mrs. Ruby Davis, whose husband was Ben F. Davis, in which land the Federal Land Bank of Houston was alleged to have some interest, and sought to have the land condemned as right-of-way for a state highway. On October 5, 1938, the county judge of Dawson County made a .written order appointing J. E. DuBose…