State v. Lackey

OPINION

CADENA, Chief Justice.

This is an appeal by the State of Texas from a judgment, based on a jury verdict, awarding $93,957.00 as compensation for the taking by the State of 15.545 acres out of a 1,513.59-acre tract for highway purposes. Defendants are Stanley F. Lackey and wife, Edna Bruns Lackey, named in the petition in condemnation as owners of the land, and Federal Land Bank of Houston, a lienholder.

In answer to the three special issues customarily submitted in cases involving a partial taking, the jury found that the value of the part taken was $7,073.00, and that the remainder was…