Town of Colleyville v. State ex rel. City of Hurst

ON MOTION FOR REHEARING

State, ex rel. City of Hurst, has taken us to task because of our construction of the law in manner so as to accord validity to Colleyville’s 1971 annexation ordinances by the 1976 “waiver” of the City of North Richland Hills.

On this it says our holding is in conflict with our own prior holding in State v. City of Fort Worth, 363 S.W.2d 500 (Tex.Civ. App.—Fort Worth 1962, writ ref’d n. r. e.) in which Judge Boyd of this Court wrote: “Besides, if Everman’s annexation ordinances were void on the dates they were enacted, the release of the territory by Fort Worth…