City of Irving v. Caster

BATEMAN, Justice.

Our former opinion is withdrawn and the following substituted therefor.

The City of Irving, Texas acquired by eminent domain proceedings an easement fifteen feet wide across appellees’ 24-acre tract of land for water and sewer mains and other public purposes. The jury found in response to special issues that the reasonable market value of the strip in the “permanent” easement, considered as severed land, was: (1) immediately prior to the taking $1,362 and (2) immediately after the taking $340.50; that the value of the remainder of the land, exclusive of the strip taken, was:…