City of Corsicana v. Herod

OPINION

THOMAS, Chief Justice.

The City of Corsicana, appellant, condemned the fee in a 3.1322-acre tract for the location of a “wet well” to pump water into its municipal water supply from the new Richland-Chambers Reservoir. To gain access to the pump site and as a right-of-way for its water pipelines, the city also condemned a 3.302-acre easement for a 4,800-foot long, 30-foot wide gravel roadway. The two parcels were contained in a 261-acre tract owned by appellees, S.F. and Gloria Herod, Eric and Joye Jones, Bill and Neva Haslbauer, and Barbara Woodward. The court entered a $2,316,314.50…