Randle L. Amason, Petitioners v. Natural Gas Pipeline Company, Respondent

Summary

The Texas Supreme Court held that when a condemnee properly contests a condemnor’s authority to condemn, the condemnor bears the burden of going to trial on that issue, and because the condemnor abandoned the case, the condemnation proceeding was dismissed and the Special Commissioners’ award vacated. The Court affirmed the lower courts’ judgments as modified.