Thornton v. Smith County

COLLEY, Justice.

George Thornton, Joe Davenport and Glenn Ellerd, plaintiffs/appellants (Landowners), appeal from a take-nothing judgment rendered in a bench trial in their suit against Smith County, County Judge Bob Hayes, Smith County’s four commissioners and Tyler Pipe Industries of Texas, Inc. (Tyler Pipe), defendants/appellees.

Landowners sought relief under the Uniform Declaratory Judgment Act1 and Texas Revised Civil Statutes, art. 6252-17 (Vernon Supp.1985), popularly known as the Open Meetings Act.

Specifically, Landowners sought judgment declaring illegal and void certain orders made…