Eliot v. Maney & Alley

ALEXANDER, Justice.

This suit was brought by E. A. Eliot and wife against Navarro county, The State Highway Department of Texas, J. W. Maney and J. R. Alley, composing the firm of Maney & Alley, Southern Surety Company of New York, Gib Gilchrist, State Highway Engineer, and E. C. Woodward, to recover damages alleged to have been occasioned to plaintiffs’ land by reason of the improper construction of state highway No. 75 through Navarro county. The plaintiffs alleged, in substance, that the defendants had unlawfully appropriated approximately one acre of their land for use in constructing the…