City of Lake Dallas v. Lake Cities Municipal Utility Authority

OPINION

SPURLOCK, Justice.

This appeal is from a summary judgment which permanently enjoined the City of Lake Dallas from taking over the assets and assuming the liabilities of, or in any other way interfering with the operations of, the Lake Cities Municipal Utility Authority pursuant to two city ordinances. These ordinances purported to adopt the provisions of Tex.Rev.Civ.Stat.Ann. art. 1182c — 1 (1963) and under such statutory authority, to abolish the Authority. The principal issue presented is whether the procedure contained in art. 1182c-l, § 2a may be used to abolish the Authority,…