Elgin Bank of Texas v. Travis County

Appellant Elgin Bank of Texas challenges the trial court’s grant of summary judgment in favor of appellee Travis County and denial of the Bank’s motion for summary judgment. We will reverse the trial court’s judgment.

Elgin Bank owns an approximately 150.36-acre tract of land in Travis County. The land is not within the corporate limits or the extra-territorial jurisdiction of any municipality. Elgin Bank wants to subdivide the property for sale in multiple tracts using metes and bounds descriptions but does not want to file a subdivision plat. 1 Since the property has access to existing…