Texas Electric Service Company v. Linebery

LANGDON, Chief Justice.

This is a condemnation suit wherein appellant, Texas Electric Service Company, a public utility corporation, having the right of eminent domain, instituted condemnation proceedings against the appellees, Tom Linebery and Evelyn Linebery, Individually and as Trustee under the will of W. F. Scarborough, deceased, for Leta Scarborough and Lucille Scarborough, for the purpose of condemning a 50-foot easement strip containing 6.37 acres, across two sections of land out of a tract of 22,407.37 acres of land in Winkler County, owned by appellees. The jury found that the value…