City of Dallas v. Firestone Tire & Rubber Co.

LOONEY, Justice.

Firestone Tire & Rubber Company, appel-lee, filed this suit under the provisions of article 1219, R. S., to set aside a special benefit assessment levied by the city of Dallas on a lot of land belonging to appellee, abutting on Ross avenue, and the city appealed from the judgment, setting aside and canceling the assessment.

The city determined, and so declared by resolution, to widen and straighten Ross avenue, from Lamar street to Peak street, a distance of about two miles; the statutory procedure was pursued, resulting in the condemnation of 214 separate parcels of abutting…