Meek v. Smith

OPINION

RONALD L. WALKER, Chief Justice.

This appeal seeks a declaration from this Court that Tex. Health & Safety Code Ann. § 711.041 (Vernon Supp.2000) is unconstitutional as violative of the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution, 1 and as violative of Tex. Const, art. I, §§ 17 & 19. Appellees instituted the lawsuit in an effort to get the trial court to grant them access to the Coley Creek Cemetery through property owned by Everitt and Donna Meek. Construing appellees’ pleadings liberally, said right of access was apparently to be found by granting…