Legal Opinion
City of New Braunfels, Texas v. Carowest Land, Ltd.
Texas Court of Appeals, 3rd District (Austin)
Decided April 30, 2014No. 03-11-00699-CVPublishedCited by 44 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
BOB PEMBERTON, Justice.
The City of New Braunfels appeals a district court order denying a plea to the jurisdiction it has asserted in a suit brought against it by a local property owner, Carowest Land, Ltd. (Carowest). 1 We will affirm the district court’s order in part and reverse in part.
BACKGROUND
Although the rivers flowing through New Braunfels are renowned for their scenic beauty and sometimes-rowdy “tubers,” 2 they are also known to flood their surroundings periodically, and thus the City undertook the “South Tributary Regional Flood Control Project,” or “South Tributary…
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