Legal Opinion
Forbes v. City of Houston
Court of Appeals of Texas
Decided July 11, 1957No. 13165PublishedCited by 14 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BELL, Justice.
This case involves an attack upon annexation ordinance No. 3351 passed by the City Council of the City of Houston on December 31, 1956. Under the terms of the ordinance rather extensive territory lying adjacent to the city was added to the corporate limits of Houston.
Appellants, who were the plaintiffs in the trial court, by their First Amended Original Petition, asserted two causes of action. The plaintiffs in the causes of action are different.
In the first cause of action some one hundred individual citizens of the territory annexed sued the City of Houston seeking a…
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