Texas Pipe Line Co. v. Hunt

CRAMER, Justice.

The evidence in this case, although voluminous, is not difficult or involved. Appellant sought to condemn for pipe line purposes a strip of land 35 feet wide (17½ feet on each side of a center line, equaling 1.342 acres). When the case regularly reached the county court for trial the jury, under instruction and issues (the form and substance of which are not complained of on this appeal), returned as their verdict*the following answers to' special issues:(1) “What do you find from a preponderance of the evidence was the reasonable market value of the 1.342-acre strip of land'…