Brown v. Lower Colorado River Authority

Relators are owners of approximately 418 acres of land lying in Travis and Bas-trop Counties and seek to enjoin temporarily the Lower Colorado River Authority from taking possession of a right of way 200 feet wide across relators’ land for location of a transmission line to distribute electric energy.

Special commissioners, appointed in Travis County to assess damages occasioned by condemnation of the easement, awarded relators $13,500, after which rela-tors filed their objections and exceptions to the award in County Court at Law. The Authority thereafter was permitted by the trial court to…