Jefferson County v. Stines

OPINION

CHARLES KREGER, Justice

Appellant Jefferson County, Texas appeals from two orders of the trial court denying its plea to the jurisdiction and granting appellee Victor Stines’s request for a declaratory judgment and writ of mandamus to compel the County to submit to arbitration. In five issues, the County argues that: (1) Stines failed to plead and prove a valid waiver of the County’s immunity from suit; (2) the trial court erred in *698concluding that the Uniform Declaratory Judgment Act waives the County’s immunity from suit; (3) Chapter 174 of the Texas Local Government Code does not…