(DOWNLOAD) "City Houston v. Misses Blanche and Willis Culmore" by Supreme Court of Texas # Book PDF Kindle ePub Free
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- Title: City Houston v. Misses Blanche and Willis Culmore
- Author : Supreme Court of Texas
- Release Date : January 20, 1955
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 69 KB
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This suit, originally styled City of Houston v. Paul E. Armstrong et al., was brought against more than one hundred and seventy persons, firms, and corporations to condemn property out of the J. S. Collins Survey in Harris County forming a link in State Highway No. 59. It was alleged that there existed such irreconcilable conflicts in the titles, boundaries, and locations of the various tracts involved that the City could not agree on the amount of damages with any of the defendants without running the risk of having to pay twice or more for the same right of way. Upon a trial before a jury the total damages were assessed at $217,932.37, which amount the City deposited in the registry of the court to await the determination of the titles of the parties in the district court, following which the fund will be distributed by the county court to the parties entitled thereto. Only two of the defendants, Misses Blanche and Willis Culmore, appealed. Upon the ground that the trial court erred in refusing to submit to the jury certain special issues requested by the appellants (respondents) the Court of Civil Appeals reversed the judgment of the trial court and remanded the cause. 272 S.W.2d 556. In the Court of Civil Appeals the case was styled Paul E. Armstrong et al. v. City of Houston et al., although Armstrong was not an appellant.