ORDER NO. 11979
OFFER TO GRADY TUCK, JR. AND WIFE, JEAN TUCK, AND ROLAND WALTERS
AND WIFE, MARY A. WA LTER5, FOR RIGHT OF WAY FOR STATE HIGHWAY 16
On this the 12th day of November, 1973, came on to be heard and considered
by the Court the matter of acquiring a parcel of land from Grady Tuck, Jr. and wife,
Jean Tuck, and Roland Walters and wife, Mary A. Walters, required for right of way
for the reconstruction of a portion of State Highway 16, and it appearing to the Court
that the landowners concerned have expressed a willingness to accept a prior verbal
offer made on behalf of Kerr County, it is ordered on motion by Commissioner
StOIIe , seconded by Commissioner Sallee and unanimously approved
by the Court that Kerr County offers to pay the aforesaid Grady Tuck, Jr. et ux, and
Roland Walters, et ux, the sum of $11, 100. 00 as compensation for land, damages and
severance damages for their conveyance to the State of Texas of a parcel of land
comprising 9. 611 acres of land out of Survey 148, J. A. Southmayd, and 1907, August .
Burow, with payment being made upon approval for filing and recordation by the
Texas Highway Department of their properly executed right of way deed, together with
a partial release for •_~utstanding lien by the Chas. Schreiner Bank of Kerrville, Texas,
which approval shall be conditioned on final title approval and payment of all ad
valorem taxes, including current taxes heretofore assessed against the property
conveyed; and in addition to the foregoing, Kerr County will, after the reconstruction
and relocation of State Highway 16, seek to have the Texas Highway Department close
and abandon as a public roadway those portions of the present right of way of said
Highway 16 which abut the remainders of the lands presently owned by the aforesaid
landowners and which lie outside the relocated new right of way and thereafter seek to
have legal title to said abandoned right of way vested in the aforesaid landowners to
the extent that their predecessors in title purportedly donated the same to the State
of Texas in the year 1941, and it is further ordered that the Clerk and the Treasurer
be authorized to draw a voucher on the ighway 16 right of way fund in the amount
of $11, 100. 00 payable to Grady Tuck, Jr. , Jean Tuck, Roland Walters and Mary A.
Walters, which voucher shall be delivered to them upon final approval for filing and
recordation by the Texas Highway Department of their right of way deed and partial
release of lien as aforesaid.