City of Cedar Hill v. Wheeler

YOUNG, Justice.

This is a condemnation suit brought by the City of Cedar Hill, a small Municipality in southern part of Dallas County; and involved the taking of 21.48 acres of appel-lee’s land to be used for a sewage treatment plant, together with 4.98 acres in form of a 50 foot strip for an access road to the plant; the site being located in the northwest corner of a tract containing 878.-91 acres of land which is bisected almost in exact center by the Dallas-Ellis County line. On trial to a jury, market value of the approximately 26 acres taken was fixed at $4,690 and damages to the…