Tennessee Gas Transmission Co. v. Nilson

The petitioner, Tennessee Gas Transmission Company, condemned an easement for gas pipe line purposes on a straight strip of land thirty feet wide, 2894 feet long and 1.99 acres in area out of, and more or less bisecting, a tract of 229.15 acres of the respondents Nilson located about % mile from the City of El Campo in Wharton County. The judgment of the county court awarding respondents the total sum of $23,213.50 in respect of the “taking” of the strip itself and consequential damages to the approximately 227 remaining acres of the tract was appealed by the condemnor and affirmed by the…