McLennan County v. Umberson

WILSON, Justice.

Appellee’s statement of the nature of this jury condemnation case, which we will assume to be correct, is paraphrased as follows : Several months before institution of the present proceedings the State Highway Department converted an existing county road forming the western boundary of ap-pellee’s 390 acre farm to a state farm-to-market road by rebuilding on its original course and location. No new right of way was acquired. Prior to this reconstruction. *229surface water from the west passed across the existing county road and flowed into a drainage ditch across the northern…