Court Opinion

ID: 3922826
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2016-07-06 09:49:37.021077+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:42:53.831572
License: Public Domain

This is a proceeding to condemn land for use as a street in an incorporated city, under article 478, Revised Statutes, as amended by the Act of July 13, 1883. The only question presented in the brief is as to the sufficiency of the description of the property sought to be condemned in the condemnation proceedings. In the application to the county judge for the appointment of commissioners, the land is described as "a portion of Race Street, to-wit, about fifty feet on the west side of lot number 104, block number 68, in the city of Stephenville, county of Erath, and State of Texas." In the report of the commissioners *Page 174 
the land is described as "fifty feet on the west side of lot number 104, block number 68, in the city of Stephenville, county of Erath, and State of Texas, being a continuation of Race Street in said city, running across the west side of said lot." In the court below appellee demurred to the application of the city for the condemnation of this land, because the description of it was not sufficiently specific, which the court sustained. We believe the court erred in this. We agree with our Court of Appeals in the case of Railway v. Irrigation Company, 1 White  Willson's Civil Cases, 395, wherein it is said: "The certainty required in such descriptions is of the same nature as that required in conveyances of land, so that a surveyor could go upon the land and mark out the land designated. The taking of the land is in the nature of a conveyance from the owner, and he is entitled to know how much land is taken from him, and the exact boundaries of what remains." That the description above referred to would be sufficient in a conveyance, we think there can be but little question. Davenport v. Chilton, 25 Tex. 518; Berry v. Wright,14 Tex. 270; Cleveland v. Sims, 69 Tex. 153.
Let the judgment of the court below be reversed and the cause remanded.
Reversed and remanded.