Legal Opinion
Jefferson County, Texas v. A.B. Bernard, Jr. D/B/A BGI Enterprises, Inc.
Texas Court of Appeals, 9th District (Beaumont)
Decided October 28, 2004No. 09-04-00219-CVPublishedCited by 4 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
DAVID GAULTNEY, Justice.
A.B. Bernard, Jr. and BGI Enterprises, Inc. 1 sued Jefferson County under the real estate fraud statute. See Tex. Bus. & Com.Code Ann. § 27.01 (Vernon 2002). The County filed a plea to the jurisdiction based on governmental immunity from suit. The trial court denied the County’s plea, and the County filed this interlocutory appeal. We review the trial court’s jurisdiction ruling de novo. See City of Dayton v. Gates, 126 S.W.3d 288, 289 (Tex.App.-Beaumont 2004, no pet.).
Bernard purchased the real estate at a surplus property sale conducted by the County. He says…
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