Guetersloh v. State

JONES, Justice.

Appellant, M.F. Guetersloh, Jr., sued the State of Texas, the Public Utility Commission, the Texas Water Commission, 1 the City of Lubbock, and James Miller, Receiver of the Carlisle Water Supply Company, appel-lees, asserting a takings claim under the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution. The district court granted summary judgment against Guetersloh on the ground that his federal takings claim was barred by res judicata because the claim could have been brought in his prior inverse-condemnation suit. In a single point of error, Guetersloh asserts…