Allen v. City of Texas City

OPINION

DUGGAN, Justice.

This is an appeal from an order dismissing a class action suit for inverse condemnation.

Between October 1980 and February 1983, appellee, the City of Texas City (“Texas City”), built a rainwater levee. Appellants are a group of landowners whose property is located between the levee to the south and Moses Lake and Dollar Bay to the north. Some of the appellants filed suit against Texas City on October 18, 1982, seeking damages for the taking, damaging, or destroying of their properties for public use without compensation, in violation of Tex.Const. art. I, sec. 17, as a…