Crockett v. Housing Authority of City of Dallas

YOUNG, Justice.

This appeal, at first prosecuted by both parties, relates to a court proceeding whereby the property of Crockett was condemned in connection with a housing project. The named defendant had owned Lots 4, 5, 16 and 17 of Weisenberger’s Garden of Eden Addition, Dallas County, in Block 10. The initial “statement in writing” of appellee, which, under Art. 3264, V.A.C.S., constituted its petition for condemnation, had failed to carry said block number; recitals of said petition being: “That said defendant(s) is the owner of the following described property situated within the…