Housing Authority of Phenix City v. Harris

GARDNER, Chief Justice.

The Housing Authority of the City of Phenix City, Alabama, a domestic corporation empowered with the right of eminent domain (Sections 7476 — 7533, Code 1923, Gen.Acts 1935 p. 126, Code 1940, Tit. 19, § 1 et seq., Tit. 25, §§ 5-29), is engaged in a project known as the “Frederick Douglas Low Rent Housing Project”, and as an incident thereto found it necessary to institute condemnation proceedings against several separate tracts of land owned by different individuals. Among them was a lot 180 by 52 feet on which was a house with two rooms and a shed and owned by…