Brinton v. Houston Lighting & Power Co.

GRAVES, Justice.

This is a condemnation suit brought by Houston Lighting & Power Company against Ina Brinton and Altus Pyburn, her lessee, to condemn an easement 5,284 feet long and 80 feet wide across a tract of land containing 640 acres.

Judgment was rendered condemning the property sought to be condemned, and awarding to Ina Brinton $117.60 and to Altus Pyburn $2.40. The appellants, Ina Brinton and Altus Pyburn, duly filed their motion for new trial and their amended motion for new trial, in which amended motion they presented all the assignments of error covered by their brief on this…