City of Houston v. Merkel
Court of Appeals of Texas
Appeal from District Court, Harris County; Chas. E. Ashe, Judge. Action by Bertha Merkel against the City of Houston. Judgment for plaintiff, and defendant appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtHiggins, J.
Suit by appellee for damages to lots 3, 4, 5, and 7 in block 4, in Merkel’s addition to the city of Houston. It was alleged that she was the owner of the premises, and that same faced on Hutcheson street, a distance of 150 feet, and such frontage was the most valuable frontage of the lots; that there was no street on the west and south sides of the property, and on the north side there was a street, but it extended no farther west than the block in which the lots were situate, and that the property was accessible to other portions of the city of Houston by way of Hutcheson street only, and…
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