City of San Antonio v. Ruble

I dissent in the view that the agreements in question authorize nothing more than a license to do certain things for certain purposes on the lands in question, and did not convey an easement interest in realty as presupposed in the majority opinion; that *284disuser occurred when the City took the permissive rights for a predetermined destructive use, whereupon the rights lapsed; and that the landowners are entitled to recover the full value of their lands in the pending condemnation proceeding.

The problem is novel and inheres in long prior contracts by which Respondents or their predecessors in…