Gulf Coast Irrigation Co. v. Gary

Mr. Judge CRITZ

delivered the opinion of the Commission of Appeals, Section A.

statement of the case.

In August, 1928, in pursuance of R. C. S. of Texas, 1925, Art. 3264, the Gulf Coast Irrigation Company, a corporation enjoying the rights of eminent domain, failed to agree with J. B. Gary, Appellee, on the amount of damages that might inure to appellee and, as a consequence, filed its written petition with the County Judge of Wharton County, Texas, seeking the condemnation of an irrigation canal of a strip containing 71 acres of land, across appellee’s farm of about 4,000 acres of land. This…