Legal Opinion
Dallas County Flood Control District No. 1 v. Cross
Texas Court of Appeals, 5th District (Dallas)
Decided September 11, 1991No. 05-90-00582-CVPublishedCited by 34 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
OVARD, Justice.
This case concerns the legality of two real estate purchases by a governmental agency. In separate transactions, Dallas County Flood Control District No. 1 (the District) bought permanent flood control easements over two tracts owned by Charles A. Cross (Cross). At the time the deals were struck, Cross was the District’s presiding officer. The voters dismissed Cross at the next election. The new leadership of the District filed this lawsuit to invalidate the two transactions. The District pleaded, among other things, that two of Cross’s allies on the District’s governing…
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