Anderson v. Wharton County

GARRETT, Chief Justice.

This appeal is from a judgment of the County Court of Wharton County in a proceeding to lay out a public road over the land of the appellant. The jury of view laid out the road in accordance with an order of the Commissioners Court, and assessed appellant’s damages at $145.20, being $40 an acre for 3.63 acres of land actually taken, refusing to allow anything for the cost of the building of two and one-third miles of fence at $165 a mile, amounting to $385, which Anderson claimed had been made necessary and incurred by the opening of the road, and assessing the value of…