Houston Lighting & Power Co. v. Boyles

PARKER, Chief Justice.

The appeal is from a judgment based upon a jury verdict awarding appellees the gross sum of $225,152.50 for the taking of two easements across certain property of appellees and the damage to the remainder. The first easement was over and across a tract of land containing 202.1 acres, such being a strip 80 feet in width running the entire length of the property and contained 16.603 acres. The second tract was 200 feet by 350 feet containing 1.607 acres out of the larger tract. On the first or strip easement, appellant condemned an easement for its poles, wires,…