Legal Opinion

Heddin v. Delhi Gas Pipeline Company

Texas Supreme Court

Decided May 14, 1975No. B-4760PublishedCited by 43 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

SAM D. JOHNSON, Justice.

Delhi Gas Pipeline Company brought this suit against E. C. Heddin and wife, Lillie Belle Heddin, to condemn a portion of their land for the purpose of laying a gas transmission pipeline. At trial the Heddins (landowners) recovered substantial damages for injury to their property by reason of the condemnation. Delhi Gas appealed; the court of civil appeals reversed and remanded the case for a new trial. 509 S.W.2d 954. We affirm the judgment of the court of civil appeals.

The landowners’ property is an almost square-shaped, eighty-acre tract of land in Van Zandt County,…

2Cases cited19 opinions

  1. Glade v. DietertTexas Supreme Court · 1956
  2. City of Fort Worth v. CorbinTexas Supreme Court · 1974
  3. Kentucky Hydro-Electric Co. v. WoodardCourt of Appeals of Kentucky (pre-1976) · 1926
  4. Armentrout v. HughesSupreme Court of North Carolina · 1958
  5. Gulledge v. Texas Gas Transmission Corp.Court of Appeals of Kentucky (pre-1976) · 1953

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3Cited by43 opinions

  1. United States v. 14.38 Acres of Land, More or Less Situated in Leflore County, MississippiCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1996
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  3. Coastal Oil & Gas Corp. v. Garza Energy TrustTexas Supreme Court · 2008
  4. Fibreboard Corp. v. PoolCourt of Appeals of Texas · 1991
  5. Ford Motor Co. v. MilesTexas Supreme Court · 1998

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