Texas Midland R. R. v. Kaufman County Imp. Dist. No. 1

Appellee brought this suit against appellant in the court below under the provisions of title 83, Vernon’s Sayles’ Civil Statutes 1914, enacted for the purpose of reclaiming, for agricultural uses, swamp lands and those subject to overflow and temporary and permanent excessive accumulation of waters. The purpose of the suit was to condemn, by the right of eminent domain conferred by the act, a portion of appellant’s right of way for use by appellee as part of a levee proposed to be constructed under the statutory provisions cited. There was first a ■hearing before commissioners, as provided…