Lower Neches Valley Authority v. City of Beaumont

PARKER, Justice.

Kenneth H. Cox and some eighty other home owners filed suit for damages against Lower Neches Valley Authority alleging that various negligent acts and omissions of Lower Neches Valley Authority had resulted in extensive flood damage to their homes. The only defendant to their suit was Lower Neches Valley Authority. The latter availed itself of Rule 38, Texas Rules of Civil Procedure, and joined as cross-defendants therein the City of Beaumont, Texas, and J. K. Hurley and Cecil Bordages, from whom Lower Neehes Valley Authority sought contribution at law. Lower Neches Valley…