Court Opinion

ID: 9762333
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-29 02:20:18.021674+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:29:33.459483
License: Public Domain

DAVIS, Justice
(dissenting).
I dissent. I have had very little time to study the Transcript, Statement of Facts, Briefs and the Motion for Rehearing. But, I have decided it is necessary that this case be reversed and remanded to the Trial Court for a new trial.
I believe that Appellant has a right to condemn the 51.2 acres of land which it seeks to condemn for roads, park purposes, and other uses that are prescribed by the Statutes as cited in the original opinion. If the Appellees’ pleadings and proof do not come within those meanings of the Statutes they will have to amend their pleadings and get their proof in order.
If the judgment of the Trial Court is affirmed, and Appellees want to continue their effort to condemn this land they will have to file an original Application for Condemnation, have Commissioners appointed, have a hearing thereon, and either side can take an appeal. Then the case will have to be tried over in the District Court.
It seems that an error was committed by the Appellees in failing to plead and to prove a legislative use of the 51.2 acres sought to be condemned. This, the Appel-lees must do. To reverse this case on this ground will not be reversing it “in the interest of justice.” It will be reversing it so that proper pleadings may be made and proper evidence may be offered in support thereof. United States Fire Insurance Company v. Carter, 473 S.W.2d 2, Supreme Court of Texas, 1971. .
I would reverse the judgment of the Trial Court and remand the case for a new trial.