Parker County v. Jackson

HEAD, Associate Justice.

The Commissioners Court of appellant county changed a road through appellee’s land from one of the third to one of the second class, and this appeal is from a judgment in the County Court assessing the damage caused by such change at the sum of $255.30. The trial in the County Court was before a special judge agreed upon by the parties, the regular county judge being disqualified by reason of interest in the subject matter; and appellant, in its first assignment, challenges the right of the parties to agree upon a special judge in that court, and insists that the case…