Perkins v. State

SMITH, Chief Justice.

This is a proceeding by the State to condemn a strip of land belonging to Oscar S. Perkins and wife in West Addition to Sharyland, in Hidalgo County. The strip, seven feet wide and comprising twenty-three hundredths of an acre, is a part of a thirty-acre tract, on which the Perkins maintain their home, as they have all the while for the past thirty years. It was condemned for use in widening an existing State highway along the front of the Perkins property. The jury awarded the owners $165 for the land and improvements actually taken, and $50 as damages to that remaining.…