Court of Appeals of Texas January 23, 1913 (City of Houston v. Merkel)

HIGGINS, J.

Suit by appellee for damages to lots 3, 4, 5, and 7 in block 4, in Merkel’s addition to the city of Houston. It was alleged that she was the owner of the premises, and that same faced on Hutcheson street, a distance of 150 feet, and such frontage was the most valuable frontage of the lots; that there was no street on the west and south sides of the property, and on the north side