Pete-Rae Development Company v. State

GRISSOM, Chief Justice.

The State of Texas instituted condemnation proceedings against a portion of the parking lot of a shopping center owned by Pete-Rae Development Company. There was an appeal from the award of the commissioners to the County Court. From a judgment awarding compensation for the land taken but refusing to award damages to the land not taken, the land owner has appealed.

At the conclusion of the State’s evidence said company moved for a dismissal of the case on the ground that the State had failed to prove a jurisdictional requirement in that it had failed to prove that a bona…