Pillot v. City of Houston

The judgment from which this appeal is prosecuted was rendered in a condemnation proceeding instituted by the appellee to take from appellants for street purposes a strip of land 80 feet wide and 416.85 feet long through a tract of 4.75 acres owned and occupied by appellants for business purposes in the city of Houston. The strip of land sought to be condemned contains 33,348 square feet. The situation of the 4.75-acre tract out of' which the strip in controversy is §ought to be taken, the uses to which it is being put by appellants, and a brief résumé of the proceedings are thus clearly and…