Typed as spelled - Lena Stone Criswell

THE DAILY DEMOCRAT
Thirty-First Year - Number 56
Marlin, Texas, Tuesday, July 7, 1931

FILES SUIT FOR ALLEGED DAMAGES ACCOUNT ROAD

Commissioner, Engineer and Citizens Committee Named as Defendants.

Suit for $850 alleged damages to a tract of land on the Wilson survey in the southwestern part of Falls county in connection with building of a road in that section has been filed by W. F. Barclay against Henry King, commissioner of precinct No. 3, Van Harris, highway engineer, and Powell Tyson, Ben Winkelmann, Louie Becker, Fred Frerichs and I. B. Wunsch, set forth as members of a citizens committee.

Plaintiff avers that he has 200 acres of land bounded on the south by a 30-foot road and that in an attempt to widen the road so it would be not less than 60 feet wide, a strip of land not less than 15 feet wide was plowed up across the entire south side of the tract and a ditch approximately 2 1-2 feet deep and 1452 varas long was cut through his property, while further excavations were made at the southwest corner.

It is set forth that it will cost $750 to restore the land to its previous condition while an additional $100 is asked for cotton which it is claimed could have been produced on it this year.

The defendants have not filed an answer in the case, but from other sources it is indicated that the work was done in the belief there had been an understanding with the owner.

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