Tennessee Gas Transmission Company v. Wood

MURRAY, Chief Justice.

Tennessee Gas Transmission Company instituted this proceeding by filing with the County Judge of Refugio County, Texas, its petition for condemnation of a natural gas pipe line right-of-way across two tracts of land in that county, one tract, containing 137.92 acres, belonging to James Lawrence Wood and wife, Lenora Wood, and the other tract, containing about 6,600 acres, belonging to James Lawrence Wood as life tenant and to several other persons as remaindermen. Commissioners were appointed and an award made, from which the landowners appealed to the County Court of…