Legal Opinion
City of Granite Shoals v. Winder
Court of Appeals of Texas
Decided March 19, 2009No. 03-08-00323-CVPublishedCited by 4 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
J. WOODFIN JONES, Chief Justice.
Appellants City of Granite Shoals, Pat Crochet, John Gault, David Dittmar, Bessie Jackson, Shirley King, and Merilyn Nations (collectively, the “City”) bring this interlocutory appeal of the trial court’s order denying their plea to the jurisdiction. See Tex. Civ. Prac. & Rem.Code Ann. § 51.014(a)(8) (West 2008). Appel-lees (collectively, the “property owners”) sued the City for declaratory relief, challenging the City’s conversion to a home-rule municipality under article XI, section 5 of the Texas Constitution and its subsequent annexation of the…
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