Lucas v. Dallas County

The court below sustaining a plea in abatement to appellants' suit, dismissed same, resulting in this appeal. The nature of the suit and the facts giving rise to same, are these: Parker V. Lucas and his wife, Esther Lucas, owned 88 and a fraction acres of land in Dallas County, being community property and their homestead. Dallas County, needing 8.64 acres of the land for public road purposes, instituted condemnation proceedings against Mr. Lucas; these proceedings resulted in judgment in favor of the County, vesting title for road purposes, and awarded Mr. Lucas the sum of $864.68 damages,…