Chapman v. City of Houston

LANE, Justice.

In the year 1926 Miss Enla Atwood and Associates were developing certain properties within the city limits of the City of Houston. Under the charter and ordinances of said city, all new streets established in the city are required to conform with existing streets, grades, etc. The ordinances pleaded by the plaintiff in this suit, and the city charter, place the exclusive control, location, etc., of all streets in the city council and in the city engineering department, and no new street can be opened, located, paved, improved, etc., except with the consent of city council and…