Legal Opinion

Grothues v. City of Helotes

Texas Court of Appeals, 4th District (San Antonio)

Decided August 14, 1996No. 04-93-00151-CVPublishedCited by 18 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

CHAPA, Chief Justice.

Pursuant to our order dated October 9, 1995, granting appellees’ motion for en banc rehearing of the motion for rehearing, our opinion issued on January 25, 1995, is withdrawn and this opinion is substituted in its place.

The questions presented by this appeal are whether a general-law municipality, as distin guished from a home-rule municipality, has authority to grant an exclusive garbage-collection contract to a private corporation, and, if so, whether that municipality can enforce payments to the garbage-collection franchise by fining its citizens who refuse to pay. We…

2Cases cited17 opinions

  1. Smith v. DavisTexas Supreme Court · 1968
  2. City of Brookside Village v. ComeauTexas Supreme Court · 1982
  3. Honeycutt v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1981
  4. Linick v. Employers Mutual Casualty Co., Texas Court of Appeals, 4th District (San Antonio)1991
  5. Texas Power & Light Company v. City of GarlandTexas Supreme Court · 1968

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3Cited by18 opinions

  1. Mid-Century Insurance Co. of Texas v. KiddTexas Supreme Court · 1999
  2. Rosenblatt v. City of Houston, Texas Court of Appeals, 13th District2000
  3. University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio v. Mata & Bordini, Inc., Texas Court of Appeals, 4th District (San Antonio)1999
  4. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Co. v. Brown, Texas Court of Appeals, 1st District (Houston)1999
  5. City of San Antonio v. TPLP OFFICE PARK PROPERTIES, LTD., Texas Court of Appeals, 4th District (San Antonio)2004

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