the City of Amarillo v. Keith Brian Burch

Opinion

BRIAN QUINN, Chief Justice.

We have before us an interlocutory appeal from an order denying a plea to the jurisdiction of the trial court filed by the City of Amarillo (the City). The latter contended that sovereign immunity barred Keith Brian Burch (Burch) from pursuing his suit against it. Burch had sued the City for inverse condemnation and breach of contract. The claims arose from water runoff being diverted through streets and other “infrastructure” of the City across and into lands and a playa lake owned by Burch. According to the live petition, the force of the runoff was…