Stappers v. State

GRISSOM, Chief Justice.

This is an appeal from a judgment in a condemnation proceeding by' the State of Texas against Christina H. Doornbos Stap-pers et al. in which the State alleged it was laying out, reconstructing and improving highway Number 347, and that in connection therewith it was necessary that appurtenant drains, ditches and grades be constructed and maintained across certain land owned by the defendants and that it was necessary to take certain small portions of the defendants’ land and to run drains, ditches and grades across same. The State alleged that the land to be taken was…