City of Missouri City v. Senior

I am unable to agree with the majority of the court that the description contained in Ordinance 102 is fatally defective and that the ordinance is, therefore, void ab initio. It was the plaintiffs’ burden to establish the invalidity of the Ordinance 102, and, in my opinion, this burden was not met.

The record shows that on September 30, 1965, Dr. Hampton C. Robinson, Jr., petitioned the mayor and governing body of the city of Missouri City, Texas, to extend the city limits so as to annex a described tract of 89.281 acres in the David Bright League, Abstract 13 in Fort Bend County, Texas.

In his…