Oak Lawn Preservation Society v. Board of Managers of Dallas County Hospital District

GUITTARD, Chief Justice.

This appeal involves another attack by neighboring property owners on a lease of the property formerly used as Woodlawn Hospital to Dallas County for use as a minimum security jail. Plaintiffs are Oak Lawn Preservation Society, a non-profit corporation composed of property owners in the Oak Lawn area, and four individual property owners. They sued the Board of Managers of the Dallas County Hospital District for a declaration that the district’s lease of the property to the county was illegal and void and for an injunction restraining the district from permitting its…