Chacon v. City of San Antonio

KLINGEMAN, Justice.

This is a suit by Joseph Chacon, Jr., appellant, against the City of San Antonio, its City Manager, and its Mayor, appellees, in the nature of inverse condemnation for damages allegedly caused by the passage of an ordinance known as the Airport Overlay Ordinance. Appellees answered that there had been no appropriation of appellant’s land and that the suit should be abated and dismissed. The trial court held that no cause of action existed until such time as the City passes a specific ordinance covering plaintiff’s land, and ordered that plaintiff’s suit be abated and…