Legal Opinion
Porretto v. Patterson
Texas Court of Appeals, 1st District (Houston)
Decided February 19, 2008No. 01-05-00942-CVPublishedCited by 62 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
JANE BLAND, Justice.
About twenty-seven acres of waterfront property, gulfward of the seawall on Galveston Island, present the basis for this dispute. Henry and Rosemarie Porretto sued the Texas General Land Office (the GLO), and its commissioner, Jerry Patterson, together with the Galveston Park Board, and its executive director, Lou Miller, alleging that the defendants have interfered with their fee simple ownership of the property and taken it without compensation. The trial court dismissed the case on the defendants’ pleas to the jurisdiction, in which they asserted governmental…
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