Hotze v. City of Houston

OPINION

JEFF ROSE, Justice.

This appeal arises from an expedited declaratory judgment action instituted by the City of Houston to validate an ordinance raising the City’s water and waste-water service rates. Appellants Bruce R. Hotze and Paul Bettencourt (collectively “Intervenors”) appeal from the district court’s judgment upholding the validity of the City’s ordinance and from the district court’s post-trial orders requiring Interve-nors to post a security bond and dismissing them from the case for failure to post the security bond. In three issues challenging the district court’s…