City of Helotes v. Miller

OPINION

Opinion by

SANDEE BRYAN MARION, Justice.

This is an appeal from the trial court’s denial of the City of Helotes’s plea to the jurisdiction. We affirm.

BACKGROUND

Appellee, Balous Miller, is the owner of approximately thirty-one acres of land located at the intersection of State Highway 16 and Scenic Loop Road in Bexar County, Texas. The land is outside the municipal limits of the appellant, the City of Helotes (“the City”). In September 2004, Miller contracted to sell approximately twenty-eight acres of the land to Wal-Mart Stores Texas, L.P. (“Wal-Mart”) for the purpose of…