Case Results

• Trial Victory: Brazos Electric Power Cooperative v. Carrell and Maak

  Corsicana attorneys Jason Sodd and Clay Beard of Dawson & Sodd, PLLC recently secured a verdict of more than five times the offer of the condemnor in a Johnson County case styled Brazos Electric Power Cooperative, Inc. v. Larry Kirk Carrell and Marsha E. Carrell and Brazos Electric Cooperative, Inc. v. Maak Enterprises, L.P. and […]
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• Trial Victory: Land Rover, Ltd. v. Texas Midstream Gas

  Frustrated by a low final offer, a local family-owned Partnership, Land Rover, Ltd., and its attorney, Tyler Milton, a partner with Dawson & Sodd, PLLC, decided to take a stand and defend its Constitutional right to just compensation. The dispute began in 2011, when Texas Midstream sued family-owned Land Rover, Ltd. to condemn two permanent pipeline […]
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• Trial and Appellate Victory: Crosstex v. Button Pipeline Case

  Chalk up a win for Denton County landowners Terry and Ossie Button in their long-running battle with Crosstex Energy (now called Enlink Midstream). The Fort Worth Court of Appeals recently upheld a jury verdict based on evidence that the company’s natural gas pipeline easement across the landowners’ undeveloped property diminished the land value and limited […]
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• State Dismisses a Condemnation Action

  A convenience store owner in Farmers Branch hired Dawson & Sodd after TxDOT filed suit to take valuable land from his site. Dawson & Sodd’s lawyers took key depositions of the State’s witnesses and established that the State lacked legal authority to acquire the land as part of the I-35E project. The State agreed to dismiss […]
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• Ranch Flooded by Lake

  In a case where a final offer of $200,000 was extended, a $34.2 million dollar recovery was upheld by the Texas Supreme Court for a ranch owner whose large and productive ranch was repeatedly flooded by water releases from an upstream lake. The net recovery to the landowners was $21.9 million after legal fees and […]
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• Gas Wells Condemned in Area to be Flooded by New Lake

  A Condemnor sought to acquire gas wells located in an area to be flooded by a new lake.  The Condemnor only offered $20,000 to the property owner.  Dawson & Sodd turned it into a $7.5 million settlement. The net recovery to the landowner was $4.93 million after legal fees and litigation expenses.
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• Convenience Store Taking in Dallas County

  In 2012, after TxDOT’s acquisition eliminated the usability of a convenience store site in Dallas County, Dawson & Sodd increased the landowner’s compensation from the $4.1 million initial offer to a $5.77 million net settlement.
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• Texas Rangers Ballpark Cases

  Landowners living in the location of the proposed Ballpark at Arlington (home of the Texas Rangers) collectively received net compensation of $5 million, a significant increase from the collective offer to the landowners of only $600,000.
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• Commercial Highway Frontage Near Ballpark in Arlington, Texas

  In 2012, the State of Texas attempted to take vacant land along I-30 near the Ballpark in Arlington, Tarrant County. We increased the $1.625 million initial offer to a net recovery of $2.88 million for the landowner.
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• TxDOT Condemnation in Central Texas

  When TxDOT condemned 28 acres for a rest stop along I-35 in Central Texas, it only offered $389,323. The acquisition destroyed all access to the valuable groundwater underneath the tract. The case was tried and resulted in a jury verdict for the landowner. The State of Texas appealed the verdict, but eventually agreed to settle […]
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• Powerline Settlement

  Dawson & Sodd raised a $251,880 offer to a landowner to a $1.38 million net settlement in a powerline case.
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• Dallas Cowboys Stadium

  When a homeowner whose home was taken for the new Dallas Cowboys Stadium in Arlington was only offered $351,000, we negotiated a final settlement that netted the homeowner $1.9 million after fees and expenses.
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• Commercial Building in Tarrant County

  In early 2014, after a highway taking resulted in the demolition of a commercial building in Tarrant County, we raised the $846,000 initial offer to a $1.3 million net settlement.
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