Stewart v. City of Austin

SHANNON, Chief Justice.

Appellants, former owners of Fayette County real property, sued appellees Lower Colorado River Authority and City of Austin in the district court of Fayette County. By their suit, appellants sought, “alternatively and in combination,” damages, reformation or rescission and cancellation of deeds to mineral estates formerly owned by them. The district court rendered summary judgment that appellants take nothing. This Court will affirm the judgment.

The summary judgment proof showed that in 1974 appellees determined to construct an electric generating plant in Fay-ette…