Claxton v. (Upper) Lake Fork Water Control & Improvement District No. 1

OPINION ON REHEARING

In a protracted legal battle in Hopkins County pitting Ray and Carol Claxton against the (Upper) Lake Fork Water Control and Improvement District No. 1, the District first lost. A considerable time later, the trial court — after granting a new trial to the District — ultimately changed course and found for the District.

Our initial opinion dismissed the Clax-tons’ appeal for lack of jurisdiction. We based that dismissal on apparently jurisdictional facts revealed by the appellate record, starting with the earlier judgment — against the District — which recited a signing…